Untitled

Untitled

Gerhard Marcks

1922

ink

From the collection of Museum of Modern Art

About this work

This image shows two cats on a simple wooden bench. One cat is curled up, lying down, while the other sits upright, facing forward. The bench has a curved back and sits on a flat surface with a few planks around it. The whole scene is drawn in black lines against a light background. The artist used a woodcut technique, which means the image was carved into wood and then printed. This gives it a bold, graphic look with no shading. Look up woodcut to see how this printing method works.

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