A Stroke of Genius: And the Brain Created the Line

What connects Picasso, Shitao, and Leonardo da Vinci? Their fascination with a mark as simple as it is variable: the line. Yet this humble stroke, accessible to a child's fingers and known to our earliest forebears, is anything but trivial. It is a shared foundation. Artists have historically deciphered the enigmas of our perception, and contemporary scientific inquiry now vindicates their insights.