![]() ![]() This language assumes that each element is delineated by a black line of constant thickness, forming a cell that is destined to receive a given color, without gradations of intensity or shading. This Visitation dates from the very late 12th century, when Catalan Romanesque art, which at first had been influenced by the Byzantine-Lombard style, underwent an original development, ending (as we see here) in the inspired adoption of the “clear line.” This graphic language-which became necessary as early as the 11th century for the production of leaded stained-glass windows-would be adopted and theoretically defended in the mid-20th century by the ingenious Belgian cartoonist Hergé, the creator of Tintin, in response to the technical constraints imposed at the time by the process of printing comic strips in color. ![]()
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