Untitled
1898
ink
From the collection of Museum of Modern Art
1898
ink
From the collection of Museum of Modern Art
Dominant colour
Untitled is a 1898 ink by Maximilien Luce, a Impressionism work, held at Museum of Modern Art.
This sketch shows a smokestack factory belching dark clouds into a pale sky. Below it, a row of small houses sits by a river, their rooftops glowing faintly. The brushstrokes are loose and swirpy, blending blues, greens, and yellows into a hazy, smoky look. The artist used a printing method that lets ink sit on a flat stone instead of paint on canvas. This lets the colors blur together like smoke or steam. Look up lithography to see how this technique works.
