Untitled

Untitled

Peter Alexander

1982

gouache

From the collection of Museum of Modern Art

About this work

This painting is a wild mix of colors and shapes. Big purple lines cut through a bright red sky. Green dots and pink blobs fill the air, while the bottom half looks like a messy ocean with swirls of blue and orange. Black streaks shoot down like lightning, and some parts sparkle with glitter. The artist used lots of different tools—ink, pastel, and even glitter—to make it look busy and alive. It’s not a picture of anything real, just pure color and movement. Want to see more like this? Look up pastel.

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