Untitled

Untitled

Mel Bochner

1966

ink

From the collection of Museum of Modern Art

About this work

This sketch shows simple buildings drawn in ink. Some look like houses with slanted roofs, others are stacked like blocks. Numbers and lines fill the page—some buildings have grids inside, and tiny numbers are written next to shapes. The lines are uneven, almost like quick notes. The numbers might be a way to count or label the shapes, but they’re not clear. The artist used basic lines, no color, just ink on paper. Look up cross-hatching to see how artists use lines to make shadows.

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