Untitled
1951
ink
From the collection of Museum of Modern Art
1951
ink
From the collection of Museum of Modern Art
This image shows a strange, shadowy figure made of sharp angles and curved shapes. The body is split into jagged pieces—some look like wings, others like a face or hands. Dark lines crisscross everywhere, creating a web of textures. The whole thing feels both solid and ghostly, like it’s melting. The artist used tiny, repeating lines to build up the dark areas, giving it a scratchy, almost mechanical look. It’s not a portrait or a landscape—just shapes that don’t quite add up to anything real. Want to see how this kind of mark-making works? Look up cross-hatching.