Untitled

Untitled

John Morris

2000

ink

From the collection of Museum of Modern Art

About this work

This sketch shows a faint, reddish outline of a person sitting on a chair. The lines are light and shaky, almost like a quick drawing. There’s a circle pattern on the wall behind them, and a vertical line that looks like a door frame. The artist used very thin, uneven strokes to create the whole thing—no heavy outlines, just ghostly marks. It feels like a first try or a rough idea. Check out cross-hatching to see how artists build shapes with layers of lines.

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