1974
ink
From the collection of Museum of Modern Art
Dominant colour
Untitled is a 1974 ink by Ellsworth Kelly, held at Museum of Modern Art.
This painting is just two big shapes: a flat white rectangle with a smooth black shape floating inside it. The black part is slightly curved at the bottom, like a wave or a shadow. Everything else is plain white—no lines, no texture, no extra colors. The artist used a printing trick called embossing to make the black shape stand out slightly from the paper. It’s not just painted on; you can almost feel the difference. Next, look up lithography to see how artists print flat, clean images like this.
Ellsworth Kelly (May 31, 1923 – December 27, 2015) was an American painter, sculptor, and printmaker associated with hard-edge painting, Color field painting and minimalism.
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