Untitled
1958
ink
From the collection of Museum of Modern Art
1958
ink
From the collection of Museum of Modern Art
This drawing shows a strange, blocky building with sharp angles and flat roofs. Shadows and lines make it look like it’s made of heavy stone, but the shapes don’t match real structures. There’s a small window, a door that’s more like a slit, and what looks like a ramp or stairs leading nowhere. The whole thing feels unstable, like it might tip over. The artist used lots of crisscrossed lines to fill in the shapes—this is called *cross-hatching*. It’s a way to add depth without color, just with ink. The building doesn’t look like anything you’d see in real life, which makes it feel more like a puzzle than a place. Check out how the artist used cross-hatching to create all those textures.