What artists use interesting curves - especially straight lines to make curves?

Question

any suggestions would be very helpful!

Answer 1

Andy Goldsworthy uses a lot of lines and curves in his land art. google Andy Goldsworthy (landart).
Hope this is helpful.

Answer 2

The Architect 'Le Corbusier' (originally a 'purist' or 'cubist' painter) is famous for houses & commercial buildings that use very clinical rectangular shapes.

But in 1958 he designed an exhibition pavilion in Belgium in the shape of a 'hyperbolic paraboloid'.

That's a saddle-like shape, curved in two different directions, but formed entirely from two overlapping sets of straight lines. It's a bit like what you would get if you twisted a square so that two opposite corners touch the ground, and the other two corners stick up in the air.

Some people think that he actually preferred these curved shapes, and only built so many of the scary inhuman square boxes because they were the fashionable buildings that customers wanted at the time.

He also built a famous church (Ronchamp) that's all curved.

More info:

www.greatbuildings.com/buildings/Philips_Pavilion.html

Answer 3

as crazy as it sounds, a lot of old quiltmakers made pieces of straight edges which took on a curved appearance when put together. I know one is called 'storm at sea' pattern - but there are dozens of others.

Answer 4

Have a look at georgia o'keeffe. She is a master in the use of line to create dynamic form. try an image search on google

Answer 5

hi,
this may not be exactly what your looking for.
But Vassily Kandinsky used curves and line in (some) of his paintings.

Answer 6

Check out these drawings by painter Gustav Klimt

http://www.cs.virginia.edu/~dbi9m/klimt/Drawings.html