Untitled

Untitled

Dan Flavin

14

graphite

From the collection of Museum of Modern Art

About this work

This piece is mostly blank—just a large sheet of light beige paper. There’s a thin orange vertical line in the middle and two faint black lines forming a triangle at the bottom. The background is smooth, with no texture or extra marks. The artist used simple lines and basic colors. The orange line stands out against the light paper, while the black lines are barely there. The paper itself has a slight tint, not quite white. Try looking up cross-hatching next to see how artists build shapes with lines.

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