1973
ink
From the collection of Museum of Modern Art
Dominant colour
Untitled is a 1973 ink by Robert Whitman, held at Museum of Modern Art.
This image is almost entirely blank. There’s a single thin black line running horizontally near the top, and a tiny signature in the corner. The rest is just white space. The piece is part of a set of prints, but this one feels like a joke—why make art that’s mostly nothing? It’s from 1973 and made by folding a screenprint. Next, check out lithography to see how other artists used similar minimal techniques.
Robert Whitman was an American artist best known for his seminal theater pieces of the early 1960s combining visual and sound images, actors, film, slides, and evocative props in environments of his own making.
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