1955
canvas
From the collection of Museum of Modern Art
Untitled is a 1955 by Jacques Villeglé, held at Museum of Modern Art.
You see a rectangle of old posters, torn and layered like city walls after rain. The colors are mostly blue and black, with scraps of white and red peeking through. Villeglé didn’t paint this—he collected these posters from Paris streets, then glued them down. The rips and overlaps aren’t mistakes; they’re the whole point. It’s like a snapshot of the city’s noise, frozen in time. If you like this, look up *impasto*—a technique where paint is laid on thick, almost like these layers of paper.
Jacques Villeglé, born Jacques Mahé de la Villeglé was a French mixed-media artist and affichiste famous for his alphabet with symbolic letters and decollage with ripped or lacerated posters.
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