1970
gouache
paper
From the collection of Museum of Modern Art
Untitled is a 1970 gouache by Alejandro Puente, held at Museum of Modern Art.
This drawing shows circles and lines with words like *color*, *tone*, *gray*, and *black*. Some shapes are connected in triangles. One big cluster has colored dots—purples, blues, and a black circle. The rest are small sketches of the same triangle shapes, all drawn in pencil and light paint. The big colored circle looks like a color chart. The rest seem like studies of how colors mix. The title says *The Birren’s Triangle*—that’s a clue. Look up gouache to see how this paint works.
Alejandro Puente is a Mexican actor, writer and director. He is best known in his native country on stage for his role of Todd Anderson in the Mexican play adaptation Dead Poets Society, a play starring Alfonso Herrera.…
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