1963
ink
From the collection of Museum of Modern Art
Untitled is a 1963 ink by Nam June Paik, held at Museum of Modern Art.
This print shows two black-and-white squares side by side. One square has a faint grid of tiny dots, like static or a half-erased line. The other is mostly empty except for a single, thin horizontal line near the top. The edges are clean, and the whole thing looks like a simple, geometric puzzle. The artist made this on both sides of the paper, so you’d see the other square if you flipped it. It’s part of a series where Paik played with repetition and minimal shapes. Look up lithography to see how this kind of print was made.
Nam June Paik was a South Korean artist. He worked with a variety of media and is considered to be the founder of video art. He is credited with the first use (1974) of the term "electronic super highway" to describe…
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