Untitled

Untitled

Louise Hopkins

2002

ink

From the collection of Museum of Modern Art

About this work

This painting is a sea of tiny, repeating lines in brown ink. The marks are so dense they fill the whole page, making no clear shapes or figures. The texture looks almost like a maze—no empty spaces, just overlapping strokes. The artist used a book page as the canvas, covering it entirely with ink. This makes the work feel like a puzzle you can’t quite solve. Look up cross-hatching to see how artists build shadows with lines.

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