Untitled
2008
graphite
From the collection of Museum of Modern Art
2008
graphite
From the collection of Museum of Modern Art
Dominant colour
Untitled is a 2008 graphite by Sandra Vásquez de la Horra, held at Museum of Modern Art.
This sketch shows a simple, stick-figure-like person running. The body is drawn with quick, loose lines, and the head is a smooth circle with a few dots for eyes and a small smile. The legs and arms are thin but full of tiny, crisscrossed pencil marks. The drawing feels fast and rough, like it was made in one go. The artist used a lot of shading to give the figure weight, even though it’s just a few lines. Try looking up cross-hatching to see how artists build shadows with lines.
