1962
ink
From the collection of Museum of Modern Art
Dominant colour
Untitled is a 1962 ink by José Luis Cuevas, held at Museum of Modern Art.
You see a tangle of jagged lines—some thick, some thin—scratching across white paper like a storm of scribbles. Faces and limbs peek out, half-hidden in the chaos. Cuevas made this in 1962, when Mexican art was still celebrating bright murals. Instead, he drew raw, messy figures that feel like they’re shouting or crying. The lines look fast, almost angry, as if he didn’t plan them. If you like this, look up lithography—the printing method he used to turn pencil marks into ink on paper.
José Luis Cuevas was a Mexican artist, he often worked as a painter, writer, draftsman, engraver, illustrator, and printmaker.
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