Untitled
1972
graphite
paper
From the collection of Museum of Modern Art
1972
graphite
paper
From the collection of Museum of Modern Art
Dominant colour
Untitled is a 1972 graphite by Marcia Hafif, held at Museum of Modern Art.
This painting is just lines—thousands of tiny pencil strokes stacked side by side. No shapes, no colors, just a wall of light gray and white. The strokes are so close they almost blur together, making the whole thing look like a soft, fuzzy texture. The artist used a simple trick: repeating the same mark over and over to fill the page. It’s exhausting just to look at, but there’s something hypnotic about it. If you want to see more like this, check out cross-hatching.
Marcia Jean Hafif (née Woods; August 15, 1929 – April 17, 2018) was an American painter born in Pomona, California.
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