Untitled

Untitled

André Masson

1950

ink

From the collection of Museum of Modern Art

About this work

This print is mostly white with blurry splotches of color. You see dark blues, greens, and a few yellows scattered loosely across the page. The shapes don’t look like anything real—they’re just smears and streaks. The artist used a method where ink is pressed onto stone, then rolled onto paper. That’s how the colors got that soft, uneven look. Check out lithography to see how this technique works.

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