Untitled

Untitled

Leopoldo Méndez

1941

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From the collection of Museum of Modern Art

About this work

This black-and-white scene shows two men in a small room. One sits at a table, watching the other, who’s wearing a white coat and holding a tool. The room has shelves with jars, a chart on the wall, and a lamp on a stand. The artist used sharp lines and shadows to make the shapes stand out. The tool in the standing man’s hand looks like it’s for testing something small. Try looking up engraving to see how artists carve images into wood like this.

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