The Role of Contour Line in Painting — an Analysis of Morandi's Still Life Painting

Journal: Arts Studies and Criticism DOI: 10.32629/asc.v2i4.564

Jingru Liu, Mengqi Jin

College of Art, Zhejiang Normal University

Abstract

In painting, line is one of the basic compositional elements and an important "tool" for artists to express their ideas. The combination of line and color, composition, and shape allows the viewer to feel the author's thoughts, emotions, or distinctive thinking through the picture. Foreign cave paintings, European pre-Renaissance oil paintings and modern paintings, and domestic Dunhuang murals, silk paintings of the Warring States period and cave paintings all show that the contour line has never disappeared despite its different roles in the changing times. Therefore, the artist's generalized expression of contour lines can become a characteristic of the picture that makes the artist stand out.

Keywords

contour line, expression, Morandi

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