1951
paint
paper
From the collection of Museum of Modern Art
Untitled is a 1951 paint by Alejandro Otero, held at Museum of Modern Art.
This painting looks like a grid of colored paper strips glued onto another sheet. The strips are bright—yellow, green, orange, red, black, and gray—arranged in crisscrossing lines. Some blocks are thick, others thin, creating a busy but balanced pattern. The edges are uneven, like it was cut by hand. The artist used simple shapes to make something complex. Notice how the colors clash and blend at the same time—no two strips are the same width or shade. This kind of cut-and-paste art was new in the 1950s. Look up Alejandro Otero next to see how he built on this style.
Alejandro Otero (El Manteco, Bolívar, March 7, 1921 — Caracas, August 13, 1990) was a Venezuelan painter of Geometric abstraction, a sculptor, a writer and a cultural promoter. He was a founding member of the Los Disidentes group.
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