i talk the line

Because your mine I talk the line. and by that I mean as you are my professor i will blog about the uses and significances of lines in art. Where to start to talk of lines and art. Lines are art. All of art. The end. No wait. Lines are the basic building blocks with which all art is made. Lines define shape. They can connect distant items while simultaneously separating the similar. They can be used to obfuscate as well as clarify. there is also profundity in the absence of lines, such as in this piece.

One can also learn about the emotional state of an artist by the characteristics of the lines they have used.  This can give insight to the significance of the painting to the artist themselves.  If the lines are drawn in a tight and controlled fashion one may infer that the artist may have been similarly reserved. On the other hand, if the strokes used are more loose and wild, we might think that the person was more out of control. For example look at the lines used by the extremely emotionally unstable Vincent van Gogh uses in the somewhat melancholy painting “The Starry Night”.

space is the part of shape that is not line. space is defined by matter. space is empty. space is pregnant. space is what im trying to fill with all these sentences that start with space. what else is their to say about space; i don't know. luckily this Martin Puryear guy has thought about it. this is him.

his work largely explores the themes of space, confinement and freedom.

in this piece Puryear has defined a hard high walled space, to invoke a feeling of captivity. but then he places a bending latter suspended of the ground, a chance at freedom. its an inspiring artwork. I'm filled with hope of escape, or hope of hope.