Untitled

Untitled

Giulio Paolini

1975

graphite

From the collection of Museum of Modern Art

About this work

This work shows three panels side by side. The left panel is plain white with faint pencil lines and a dotted vertical mark. The middle panel is a blurry black-and-white photo of the same lines on a textured surface. The right panel is a flat, light brown color with the same lines drawn in gray. The pencil marks look like they’re tracing the same shape across all three. The middle panel’s blur makes the lines feel lost or erased. Check out cross-hatching to see how artists build shapes with repeated lines.

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