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classical line A kind of line that is mathematical, precise, and rationally organized, epitomized by the vertical and horizontal grid, as opposed to expressive line.
Classical Line
Closely related to analytic line, a kind of line that is mathematical, precise, and rationally organised, epitomised by the vertical and horizontal grid, as opposed to expressive line.
As a result, Western painting and sculpture developed largely along classical lines.
Although Schoenberg was the more overtly revolutionary, he regarded his innovations as the continuation of a direct Classical lineage, ...
In them, the great synthesis between two approaches that, thirty years before, had been considered the opposed poles of French art - Ingres's classical line, Delacroix's Romantic color - is achieved.
 See also: Classic, Roman, Painting, Cubism, School
  
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