Untitled
2000
ink
From the collection of Museum of Modern Art
2000
ink
From the collection of Museum of Modern Art
Untitled is a 2000 ink by Carroll Dunham, held at Museum of Modern Art.
This image shows a bright, odd scene with big shapes and bold colors. There’s a pink background with blue lines like waves at the edges. A yellow blob with a stem-like shape sits on the left, while a red, blocky figure with a window and a small yellow dot stands in the middle. Everything looks cut out and slightly wobbly, like a child’s drawing gone wild. The artist used a printing trick where the lines stand out in relief—you can almost feel them if you run your fingers over it. That’s called *embossing*, which makes the image pop. Check out engraving to see how artists carve and print these raised lines.
Carroll Dunham (born November 5, 1949) is an American painter. Working since the late 1970s, Dunham's career reached critical renown in the 1980s when he first exhibited with Baskerville + Watson, a decade during which…
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