Untitled
2000
graphite
From the collection of Museum of Modern Art
2000
graphite
From the collection of Museum of Modern Art
This sketch looks like a messy, fast doodle of a group of people and animals. The lines are loose and wobbly, with no clear shapes—just rough blobs for heads and bodies. Some figures are hunched over, others sprawled out, and there’s a big, lumpy shape that might be a couch or a pile of clothes. The drawing feels more like scribbles than a finished picture. It’s all in pencil on see-through paper, so the lines are faint in spots. The artist seems to have been more interested in the movement of the marks than in making things look real. If you like this kind of loose, sketchy style, check out cross-hatching.
