Untitled

Untitled

Jasper Johns

1980

ink

From the collection of Museum of Modern Art

About this work

This painting is a wild mix of colors and shapes. Bright yellow, pink, blue, and green lines crisscross everywhere. Some lines are thick, some are thin, and they overlap in messy, uneven patterns. There’s a small black rectangle near the middle with a tiny white shape inside. The artist used a printing method that lets colors bleed into each other. It looks loose and fast, like scribbles that somehow came together. If you like this, check out lithography to see how it works.

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