Untitled

Untitled

Alexander Gonda

1960

ink

From the collection of Museum of Modern Art

About this work

This drawing is all lines—thousands of tiny strokes packed together. They create shapes that look like tangled roots or maybe a stormy sky. Some areas are dark, almost black, while others are lighter, letting the paper show through. The lines are so dense they almost feel alive, like you could reach in and pull them apart. The artist used only ink and paper, no colors, just different weights of lines. Try looking up cross-hatching to see how this technique works.

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