The Biglin Brothers Racing Analysis

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In Thomas Eakins’ painting The Biglin Brothers Racing, the lines are being used in the piece by showing them moving in different directions. Even though most of the outlines in the artwork are organic because of the people and landscapes involved, there are different movements of the lines being geometrically shown. One example of this is the two brothers using not only their bodies, but their ores to move their boat around. The ore that is shown more clearly than the other one, has a diagonal direction pointing downward towards the water in order to have the audience believe that the boat is moving. Another example that involves the movement of lines is the movement within the clouds since both geometric and organic lines help the clouds have

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