Untitled

Untitled

Beatrice Riese

2002

graphite

From the collection of Museum of Modern Art

About this work

This work shows two squares side by side. The left one has rows of tiny, wavy lines in red, green, and black ink. The right one is packed with even smaller gray lines, almost like a blur. The paper is light, and the edges are clean. The lines look hand-drawn but are so tight they fill the whole space. It’s like two different ways of covering a page—one with color, one with gray. Next, check out cross-hatching to see how artists use lines to create texture.

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