Line art encompasses all artworks that employ lines on (mostly) blank background, to depict two or three-dimensional objects. Line artists use clean, bold lines without tones or shading to convey ideas, messages, and emotions.
Most commonly, line art is monochromatic, with black lines painted on a white surface. However, with the development of a genre, new, more colorful artworks appeared, skillfully mixing colors to redefine the traditional comprehension of line art.
Line art is one of the oldest art types out there, with first line art cave drawings dating 73,000 years backs. Needless to say, line art has drastically evolved since. Some of the world’s most prominent artists experimented with line art such as Leonardo da Vinci, Pablo Picasso, or in more recent years Keith Haring.
Figurative Line Art
Celebrated artists like Pablo Picasso or Henri Matisse made some of their most memorable artworks by using nothing more than one or two lines. Matisse particularly focused on line ink drawings and paintings in the late 1940s when his health began to deteriorate. The French artist used simple lines for portraying intimate subjects…
