1971
ink
From the collection of Museum of Modern Art
Untitled is a 1971 ink by Robert Mothé, held at Museum of Modern Art.
This image shows a bright yellow rectangle with a black bar across the top. On the yellow, there’s a small black-and-white logo of a bird and the words “Gauloises Caporal” in bold letters. The edges of the yellow shape are uneven, like it was cut out and glued down. The artist used a printmaking method that lets ink fill in textures for shading. This piece looks simple, but it’s actually layered with different techniques. Try looking up etching to see how artists create these kinds of prints.
Robert Motherwell (January 24, 1915 – July 16, 1991) was an American abstract expressionist painter, printmaker, and editor of The Dada Painters and Poets: an Anthology.
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