Untitled

Untitled

James Siena

2006

ink

From the collection of Museum of Modern Art

About this work

This painting looks like a swirling mix of colors and lines. Warm tones—reds, oranges, yellows—fill the space, with some areas blending into soft beige. The lines are thick and tangled, almost like scribbles or waves, but they create shapes that don’t quite form anything you’d recognize. The artist used a method where ink is pressed onto stone or metal to make prints. That’s how the bold outlines and smooth color patches appear. Look up lithography to see how this printing trick works.

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