Untitled

Untitled

Ellsworth Kelly

2004

ink

From the collection of Museum of Modern Art

About this work

This painting is five black rectangles split by thin white lines. The shapes look stacked unevenly, like pages of a book left open. Some white edges glow faintly, while others fade into the dark background. The artist made this in 2004 using a printing method that presses ink onto stone. The simplicity hides how carefully the lines were placed. Look up lithography to see how this technique works.

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