1912
ink
paper
From the collection of Museum of Modern Art
Untitled is a 1912 ink by Robert Delaunay, held at Museum of Modern Art.
This drawing looks like a messy sketch. Shapes and lines overlap everywhere—some look like faces, others like buildings. The ink is dark and scratchy, with lots of crisscrossing marks. There’s no clear focus, just a jumble of forms. The top has the year "1910" written in, but it’s actually from a few years later. The artist scribbled their name in the corner. Look up cross-hatching next to see how artists build up dark areas with lines.
Robert Delaunay was a French artist of the School of Paris movement; who, with his wife Sonia Delaunay and others, co-founded the Orphism art movement, noted for its use of strong colours and geometric shapes.
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