What is the meaning of lines in mapeh?

Answer 1

LINELine is a surprisingly difficult concept to define. My dictionary gives 86 definitions for line. The simplest explanation is that it is a long thin shape that ceases to act like a shape and acts like a . . . . . line.

Lines are basic to all of the visual arts. Drawing is more or less based on using lines. Lines have many uses in pure design as well.

The odd thing about lines is that they do not occur in nature. There are cracks and edges, long thin strands etc. But those things either have mass (are objects) or are edges of objects.

Line in art is an artificial device that we have learned to interpret as representing something. You have learned to read drawings with lines since childhood. The usual meaning of a line is that it represents an edge.