Untitled

Untitled

Michael Snow

1965

gouache

From the collection of Museum of Modern Art

About this work

This image is a black-and-white newspaper page with a single, faint charcoal drawing of a person standing sideways. The figure looks like a nude, with one arm raised and the other hanging loose. The background is just the text and ads from the paper, barely visible through the thin lines of the drawing. The drawing is so light you can still read the newspaper underneath—like a ghost sketch. It’s almost like the figure is made of smoke or a quick, hesitant mark. Look up gouache next to see how this soft, see-through paint works.

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