Hierarchy classification:

1. top of the aat hierarchies
2. Associated Concepts Facet
3. Associated Concepts (hierarchy name)
4. [concepts in the arts and humanities]
5. artistic concepts
6. formal concepts (artistic concept)
7. [form and composition concepts]
8. linear forms

Anotations

Scope note:

In art or aesthetics, S-shaped curved lines appearing within an object, as the boundary line of an object, or as a virtual boundary line formed by the composition of several objects. The idea originated with William Hogarth as an essential part of his theory of aesthetics.