Untitled
1920
graphite
paper
From the collection of Museum of Modern Art
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Kurt Schwitters
Kurt Hermann Eduard Karl Julius Schwitters (20 June 1887 – 8 January 1948) was a German artist.
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graphite
paper
From the collection of Museum of Modern Art
Untitled is a 1920 graphite by Kurt Schwitters, held at Museum of Modern Art.
You see bits of ticket stubs, newspaper scraps, and colored paper glued onto a sheet of cardstock. A few pencil lines cut across the collage like cracks in a sidewalk. Schwitters called these works “Merz”—a nonsense word he made up. He collected trash from the street and turned it into art, long before recycling was cool. The scraps feel random, but they’re arranged just so, like a puzzle without a picture. If you like this, look up the technique called stippling—it’s another way artists build pictures from tiny dots instead of scraps.
Kurt Hermann Eduard Karl Julius Schwitters (20 June 1887 – 8 January 1948) was a German artist.
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