Untitled

Untitled

Gego

1970

ink

From the collection of Museum of Modern Art

About this work

This painting is all about lines—lots of them. Tiny, crisscrossing marks fill the whole paper, making a dense web. The lines are light brown, almost like pencil or ink, and they overlap in sharp angles. At the bottom, the lines get thicker and more tangled, almost like a messy edge. The pattern looks like it was drawn by hand, but it’s super precise. The artist used a simple trick to fill the whole page without any gaps. Want to see how this works up close? Check out cross-hatching.

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