Untitled
1964
oil
From the collection of Museum of Modern Art
Untitled is a 1964 oil by Agam, a Op Art work, held at Museum of Modern Art.
This painting is a wall of tiny colored squares and rectangles. The colors are bright—reds, blues, yellows—and they’re arranged in a messy grid. Some squares are plain, but others have lines or dots inside. The whole thing looks like it’s made of metal, with a rough, bumpy surface. The artist used oil paint on aluminum, which is unusual. That’s why it looks so textured and different from smooth canvases. Look up Agam (Yaacov Agam) next—he played with how we see things in art.
