1940
ink
paper
From the collection of Museum of Modern Art
Dominant colour
Untitled is a 1940 ink by Julio González, depicting Mask, held at Museum of Modern Art.
You see a tangle of thin black lines on white paper, like tangled wire or bare branches against the sky. González made these drawings after years of welding metal sculptures. The ink lines feel like the same quick, confident marks he used in steel. He called it "drawing in space"—here, the space is just paper. Look up cross-hatching next to see how other artists build shapes with overlapping lines.
Julio González i Pellicer (21 September 1876 – 27 March 1942), born in Barcelona, was a Spanish sculptor and painter who developed the expressive use of iron as a medium for modern sculpture.
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