1912
charcoal
paper
From the collection of Museum of Modern Art
Untitled is a 1912 charcoal by Lyonel Feininger, held at Museum of Modern Art.
This sketch shows a busy town square with jagged, swirling lines everywhere. A tall church steeple dominates the right side, while smaller buildings crowd the left. People in long coats and hats walk around, some carrying bags or talking. The sky looks stormy, with thick, tangled marks filling the top half. The artist used lots of overlapping lines to build up shadows and texture—almost like scratching into the paper. It gives the whole scene a rough, restless feel. Next, check out cross-hatching to see how artists use layers of lines like this.
Lyonel Charles Adrian Feininger was a German-American painter, and a leading exponent of Expressionism.
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