How does the use of line in Eugne Delacroix's The Death of ...

[cdr_15]

How does the use of line in Eugne Delacroix's The Death of Sardanapalus differ from David's Death of Socrates?
 
  What will be an ideal response?

Question 2

In Pat Steir's The Brueghel Series: A Vanitas of Style, a series of sixty-four separate panels are held together by what category of line?
 
  a) grid lines
  b) contour lines
  c) expressive lines
  d) calligraphic lines

[nmyers]

Answer to Question 1

Answer: Delacroix's painting, an emotional work of an exotic, passionate subject, differs from the stable, precise Death of Socrates in that it has a diagonal recession rather than horizontal and vertical lines and it lacks a grid.

Answer to Question 2

Answer: a