? Lines are the oldest and most primitive art form in the history of art. The first paintings handed down are mainly expressed in the form of lines. For example, China's primitive hieroglyphics, painted pottery paintings, and Western primitive rock paintings all use lines to outline. This is the imitation of nature by primitive humans. It shows the casual and relaxed mentality of the ancestors when painting.
? Line drawing is the simplest and most direct painting method used to express images. It is the oldest and most primitive painting method of mankind. It is a virtual and virtual method used to express objective things or subjective imagination on a plane. A suggestive and decorative visual language, it is the most childish modeling vocabulary. All children's first paintings are expressed by lines.
? The artist Paul Chris once said: "Take a walk with a line." He said that the essence of a line lies in its emotional meaning, which expresses the painter's subtle feelings and The delicate emotions also express the rich lines leaving us with infinite space for imagination. Different lines give people different feelings. Vertical lines give people a feeling of solemnity, straightness, nobility, hope, integrity, etc.; horizontal lines give people a feeling of peace, stability, and stillness; oblique lines give people a feeling of change, movement, tension, and uneasiness; regular curves make people feel clear, neat, and Smooth and orderly; free curves appear lively, graceful, vivid and soft, giving people a smooth, graceful and vivid feeling.
Peter and Merrifield once conducted such an experiment: they asked some adults to draw the lines they thought best fit based on 24 adjectives. Words such as "pleasure", "joy" and "happiness" are mostly drawn as ascending lines, "sadness", "death" and "unhappiness" are mostly drawn as downward lines, and "intense", "restless" and "crazy" are mostly drawn as zigzag lines. Broken and irregular lines. In addition, lines that represent "cruel" and "manic" are usually thick and heavy, while those that represent "gentle" and "delicate" are often thin and soft.
? When the author conducts painting psychological technology training, he often asks students to use different lines to express emotions. The conclusion is similar to the above study, such as using ascending lines, wavy lines, etc. to express happiness and joy. ; Use downward lines and lighter lines to express sadness, sadness, pain, etc.; use jagged lines, irregular lines, and heavy strokes to express anger, mania, etc.
? Similar messages can be found in children's drawings. If you pay attention to the outline of each little person, you may be able to discover the emotions that your child pours into different characters. In a picture of a family, if a child uses thick and heavy lines to describe his father and soft lines to describe his mother, the little boy is likely to have an Oedipus complex and be hostile to his father. Children who draw usually add hands and feet to their little figures to make them look more vivid. Researchers can tell whether the little painters who have invested their own psychological and emotional factors in the paintings are optimistic or pessimistic from the direction in which their hands and feet are stretched.
Based on the same principle, in the tree drawing test, a lot of information can be obtained by observing the growth direction of the branches.