Lineography is the art

Art

Art is the product or process of deliberately arranging items in a way that influences and affects one or more of the senses, emotions, and intellect....

 of drawing without lifting the pen, pencil, or paintbrush that is being used. The practice originated in France

France

The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...

 in the seventeenth century and had fallen into disuse by the early nineteenth century. In some instances, entire landscapes and still lifes have been drawn or painted using this lineographic technique. There are also examples of famous works of art, such as the Mona Lisa

Mona Lisa

Mona Lisa is a portrait by the Italian artist Leonardo da Vinci. It is a painting in oil on a poplar panel, completed circa 1503–1519...

 being reproduced in this way.

Lineography experienced a resurgence in 1960 with the release of the Etch-A-Sketch. A generation of young people used this toy to produce images that were made from one continuous line.