Untitled

Untitled

Alan Saret

1970

graphite

From the collection of Museum of Modern Art

About this work

This painting shows a messy pile of colored lines on a light background. The lines are thin but packed together, in bright colors like red, blue, green, and yellow. They look tangled, almost like a bundle of sticks or wires. The artist used colored pencils to draw every single line by hand—no brushes or paints here. It’s all about the colors and how they clash or blend when they overlap. Next, check out cross-hatching to see how artists build texture with lines.

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