Basic Design Element "Line" in the Art Education

Abstract

Basic Design course contains the theoretical and practical knowledge which the art students should use as fundamentals of their art and design works in the future. This course is the main course in the first year and it is covering a large time in curriculum for the Painting, Sculpture, Ceramic Art, Printing and Graphic education. Line, as a basic design element, is one of the important topics in this course. Line is a bounder for an object, limitation of a colored shape, expression of the light-dark of surfaces, calligraphy in the graphic art, etc. Therefore, during the course, the relationship between line-shape, line-texture and line-color are analyzed for each topic. In this point of view art students can find a chance for observing and analyzing the nature and environment in their daily life.