Untitled
2003
graphite
From the collection of Museum of Modern Art
2003
graphite
From the collection of Museum of Modern Art
Untitled is a 2003 graphite by Jim Isermann, held at Museum of Modern Art.
This painting is a grid of bright colors and simple shapes. Squares, rectangles, and ovals repeat in rows, forming a pattern. The colors are bold—reds, blues, yellows, greens—and the lines are clean and precise. Tiny pencil marks fill each shape, giving it texture. The artist used graph paper as the base, which you can see in the faint lines underneath. This makes the shapes line up perfectly, like a puzzle. Look up cross-hatching next to see how artists build texture with lines.
