Untitled
1984
ink
From the collection of Museum of Modern Art
1984
ink
From the collection of Museum of Modern Art
Dominant colour
Untitled is a 1984 ink by Joan Snyder, held at Museum of Modern Art.
This painting looks chaotic but has bold colors. You see two figures tangled up in thick, rough lines—one red, one green—with jagged shapes around them. The background is dark, and the edges of the paper are torn. Scrawled in the lower left corner are the words *"Mommy, why?"* in messy handwriting. The artist used a woodcut technique, where ink is pressed into carved wood to make prints. This method creates sharp, angular lines and solid blocks of color. Check out how woodcut works to see why this print looks so different from brush-on-canvas art.
Joan Snyder is an American painter from New York. She is a MacArthur Fellow, a Guggenheim Fellow, and a National Endowment for the Arts Fellow (1974).
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