Untitled
1977
From the collection of Museum of Modern Art
1977
From the collection of Museum of Modern Art
You see a perfect 8-inch square of paper stamped with thin vertical stripes in black ink. Buren made this with a rubber stamp—no brush, no paint. The stripes are always the same width, always the same spacing. He called them his "visual tool" and used them in museums, on walls, even on buses. The stamp turns art into something anyone could repeat. Look up the technique called *impasto* next to see how paint can do the opposite.
