1949
oil
canvas
From the collection of Museum of Modern Art
Dominant colour
Untitled is a 1949 oil by Adolph Gottlieb, a Abstract Expressionism work, held at Museum of Modern Art.
This painting is packed with bold black and white shapes on a gray background. You see two stick-figure-like people with big heads, plus lots of circles, lines, and squiggles scattered around. Some shapes look like eyes, others like arrows or hearts. A small orange rectangle sits near the bottom. The artist used simple shapes to make a busy, almost chaotic scene. The lines are thick and confident, with no shading to soften them. Look up impasto next to see how thick paint can change a painting’s feel.
Adolph Gottlieb was an American abstract expressionist painter who also made sculpture and became a printmaker.
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