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helper methods to create the primitives. In the example below, we create a
``Figure`` instance using :func:`matplotlib.pyplot.figure`, which is a
convenience method for instantiating ``Figure`` instances and connecting them
with your user interface or drawing toolkit ``FigureCanvas``. As we will
discuss below, this is not necessary -- you can work directly with PostScript,
PDF Gtk+, or wxPython ``FigureCanvas`` instances, instantiate your ``Figures``
directly and connect them yourselves -- but since we are focusing here on the
``Artist`` API we'll let :mod:`~matplotlib.pyplot` handle some of those details
for us::
with a GUI framework so that they can be shown in a window on the screen::

import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
fig = plt.figure()
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In [102]: line
Out[102]: <matplotlib.lines.Line2D at 0x19a95710>

If you make subsequent calls to ``ax.plot`` (and the hold state is "on"
which is the default) then additional lines will be added to the list.
You can remove a line later by calling its ``remove`` method::
If you make subsequent calls to ``ax.plot`` then additional lines will be added
to the list. You can remove a line later by calling its ``remove`` method::

line = ax.lines[0]
line.remove()
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# Out[159]: <Axes:>
#
# In [160]: print(fig.axes)
# [<Axes:>, <matplotlib.axes._axes.Axes object at 0x7f0768702be0>]
# [<Axes: >, <Axes: >]
#
# Because the figure maintains the concept of the "current Axes" (see
# :meth:`Figure.gca <matplotlib.figure.Figure.gca>` and
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