1991
pastel
paper
From the collection of Museum of Modern Art
Dominant colour
Untitled is a 1991 pastel by Georg Baselitz, held at Museum of Modern Art.
This painting looks messy on purpose. You see a tangled web of black lines and scribbles, with red and green splotches scattered around. The center has a rough shape that might be a face, but it’s hard to tell. The artist used pastel—soft, chalky sticks of color—to make the paint bleed into the paper. That’s why the colors look smudged and uneven. It’s not a clear picture of anything real. If you like this kind of wild, abstract art, check out pastel next to see how it works.
Georg Baselitz was a German-Austrian painter, sculptor and graphic artist. In the 1960s he became well known for his figurative, expressive paintings. In 1969 he began painting his subjects upside down in an effort to…
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