Consider Eakins' The Biglin Brothers Racing and Cartier-Bresson's Aquila, Abruzzi, Italy. Describe each artist's use of line (both actual and implied) to emphasize the content of each work.
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Horizontal, vertical, and diagonal lines in a two-dimensional artwork contribute to the direction and movement in the composition. Horizontal and vertical lines convey a sense of calm and stability, whereas diagonal lines suggest action and tension. Thomas Eakins' The Biglin Brothers Racing is stabilized by the long, calm horizontal of the distant shore. In Aquila, Abruzzi, Italy, Cartier-Bresson emphasizes the use of directional lines. The viewer's eyes slide down the line of the steeply pitched railing to a woman's head. Other railing lines carry our eyes into the background, where a cluster of town-dwellers stand in the open square. Without the lines of the iron railings, our eyes would not move so efficiently through the picture.
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a. true b. false
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