Untitled
1978
pastel
paper
From the collection of Museum of Modern Art
1978
pastel
paper
From the collection of Museum of Modern Art
Untitled is a 1978 pastel by Geta Brătescu, depicting Writing, held at Museum of Modern Art.
You see a tangle of lines in black, red, and blue—some sharp, some smudged—on a big sheet of paper. This is one frame from Brătescu’s film script for *The Studio*. She drew it while thinking about her workspace, but the lines feel more like thoughts than objects. The colors don’t stay inside the lines; they bleed into each other like ideas do. Look up *pastel* to see how this soft, chalky medium lets artists layer and smudge in ways pencil can’t.
Geta Brătescu (4 May 1926 – 19 September 2018) was a Romanian visual artist with works in drawing, collage, photography, performance, illustration and film.
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