1976
ink
From the collection of Museum of Modern Art
Dominant colour
Untitled is a 1976 ink by Arman, depicting Guitar, held at Museum of Modern Art.
You see a tall, narrow sheet filled with the same small, dark shape printed over and over—like a shadowy violin repeating down the page. Arman often worked with everyday objects, but here he didn’t use the real thing. He printed the same violin outline again and again, almost like a stamp. The repetition makes the shape feel less like an instrument and more like a pattern or a rhythm. To see how other artists turned ordinary things into art, look up lithography.
Arman was a French and American artist. Born Armand Fernandez in Nice, France, Arman was a painter who moved from using objects for the ink or paint traces they leave to using them as the artworks themselves. He is best…
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