Untitled

Untitled

Allen Kubach

1952

ink

From the collection of Museum of Modern Art

About this work

This image shows a blurry, grayish rectangle filled with faint lines and shapes. The marks look like quick sketches—some dots, some wobbly lines, others like tiny birds or arrows scattered unevenly. The edges of the paper are rough, and the whole thing feels like it was drawn fast, almost by accident. The artist used a method called lithography, where the image is drawn on a flat stone or metal plate. The result looks loose and unfinished, like a sketch that wasn’t meant to be polished. Check out lithography to see how this technique works.

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