Untitled

Untitled

Richard Tuttle

2002

ink

From the collection of Museum of Modern Art

About this work

This painting looks like a mix of blocks and stripes. On the left, there are lots of black squares and rectangles stacked in a messy pattern. To the right, a few wide, flat colors—pink, teal, yellow—cut across the middle like floating bands. The bottom has a thin blue strip, and the top has a brown one. Everything feels off-kilter, like someone shifted the pieces after gluing them down. The black shapes on the left look like they were carved into wood, then stamped. The colors on the right seem painted on top later. The whole thing doesn’t look like anything in nature—just shapes and colors playing around. Want to see how this was made? Look up woodcut.

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