Untitled
1965
ink
From the collection of Museum of Modern Art
Untitled is a 1965 ink by Allan D'Arcangelo, depicting Arrow, held at Museum of Modern Art.
You see a bright yellow highway sign floating against a black sky. The sign has a white arrow pointing straight ahead, but the arrow is split in half—one side clean, the other jagged like it’s been torn. D’Arcangelo made a lot of these highway images in the 1960s. They look simple, but they’re about how roads stretch endlessly in your mind, not just on a map. The torn arrow makes you wonder if the path is broken or just changing. Look up other works in The Museum of Modern Art to see more pieces that play with signs and space.
Allan D'Arcangelo was an American artist and printmaker, best known for his paintings of highways and road signs that border on pop art and minimalism, precisionism and hard-edge painting, and also surrealism.
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