This Renaissance painting by Picasso is an oil painting on canvas. He uses the circular movements of his paint brush, as well as contour lines to create shapes such as the houses and the moon. This painting was to portray the realization of Earth that he came to recognize after he saw God in his life.

Focus on Line: Woman with a Parasol

Woman with a Parasol is an oil painting by Claude Monet.

Monet used contour lines in the distinct geometric shape of a  large triangle in painting the woman (his wife) and a smaller triangle in the image of his son. The parasol's underside is also made up of triangles in a circular fashion. These lines are darker for the shadowing effect. The contour lines of her dress are dark, drawn diagonally to show the shadowing of the parasol from the sun overhead. Short vertical lines make up the grassy area below her. The soft, cool colors used for the clothing of the woman blends with the negative space of the sky behind her. There is an additional patch of yellow on the arm of the woman, also in the shape of a triangle.

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lines

 In this painting, the artists used alot of verticle and horizontal lines. He uses horizontal lines to represent the sky and what looks like and island, and some of the ocean. Vertical lines are used on the walkway, along with the mans shirt, and some of the ocean.  The mans face contains contour lines.He creatively uses the lines to represent a darker painting filled with different textures.