Untitled

Untitled

Jean Dubuffet

1958

ink

From the collection of Museum of Modern Art

About this work

This image is a dense, black-and-white tangle of lines and marks. It looks like a chaotic scribble—no clear shapes, just layers of overlapping strokes and dots. The texture is rough, almost like a sketch left unfinished or exploded with energy. The artist used tiny, repeated marks to fill the whole surface. It’s like looking at a close-up of a crowded city map, but without any real roads or buildings—just the lines themselves. If you like this style, check out cross-hatching next.

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