Untitled

Untitled

Piero Dorazio

1963

oil

From the collection of Museum of Modern Art

About this work

This painting is a wall of tight, wavy lines. Blues and yellows repeat in a grid, like rows of fabric or waves in water. The colors shift from dark to bright, but everything stays neat and orderly. The brushstrokes are thick and visible, almost like ridges. It looks handmade, not smooth. Look up impasto next to see how artists use thick paint like this.

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