Untitled

Untitled

Max Ernst

1950

ink

From the collection of Museum of Modern Art

About this work

This image shows a fuzzy, sketchy scene in two soft colors. The top half is a pale pink with tangled lines that might be trees or branches. The bottom half is a greenish-blue, with more tangled lines that could be water or land. The whole thing looks like it was drawn with a rough, scratchy tool. The artist used a method that creates these loose, scratchy marks—it’s not smooth like a pencil. The lines overlap in a way that makes the shapes hard to tell apart. Look up etching to see how artists make these kinds of prints.

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