Analysis On The Representation Of Lines In Monochrome Pictures

Line is one of the basic elements of monochrome pictures. As time goes by, monochrome pictures are popular with people for its special language of the lines. As a basic language, lines always show various formation and meaning in different periods, nation through changing its combination. And all of these combinations are associated with people’s vision. So it is necessary to analysis the lines with art theory.The conception of monochrome picture can be divided into narrow sense and broad sense. The lines with decorative meaning has more various combination that can bring more strong feeling to people, so this analysis will focus on it. Lines are one of the basic factors in drawing and they are more convenient than other factors to express one thing, meanwhile, it can nor only show the shape, but also the inner meaning. Lines with various combination have its own appreciative value. The language of lines is a important tool for artist and appreciators, till now, lots of experts have made researches about it.The language of lines can be traced to the primitive period. In burrowing period, people draw pictures on the wall of caves and rocks. When pottery was invented, people use lines to describe the life on the pottery. Later, when brush, paint, paper, cloth, silk and other materials appeared, people began to use lines to draw and record. Because of the different historical background and cultures, the orient nations and the west nations has their own monochrome art. Firstly, Chinese monochrome pictures are different from westerns in tool, materials, skill as well as the purpose. Instead of copy and representation, Chinese focus on the unity of lines and artist’s emotion. But western pay more attention to describe the thing accurately. The appearance of pencils and pens expand the way of expressing for modern monochrome pictures, and plays a important role in combining the orient style and the western style. So, the lines should be a main tool for us to analysis above two different style in monochrome pictures.No matter traditional or modern, orient or western, the language of lines has an important influence on the beauty of one picture. It can not only bring the feeling of space, movement, but also show the artist’s emotion. In monochrome pictures, people can appreciate and understand one picture and get its basic structure through the lines’arrangement like repeat, deconstruction and so on. The lines also have different comparative affect like light and heavy, slow and quick, light and dark, thick and thin, long and short, winding and straight, smooth and rough, regular and irregular. The shape of lines should be unity and various. When drawing monochrome picture, people should have their own style on the basis of making sure the whole picture are unity.In nature,there are so many vivid images. In order to put them into the monochrome pictures successfully, artist must collect and arrange these materials from nature. The process is creating,arranging and changing lines. For another word, people can change the nature images into the language of lines with different skills and materials in monochrome pictures.