Untitled
1972
ink
From the collection of Museum of Modern Art
1972
ink
From the collection of Museum of Modern Art
Dominant colour
Untitled is a 1972 ink by Santiago Cárdenas, depicting Umbrella, held at Museum of Modern Art.
You see a grid of thin, wobbly lines pressed into paper—some straight, some bent, like a page from a notebook left in the rain. Cárdenas made this by scratching metal plates, inking them, and pressing paper over the grooves. The lines look hand-drawn, but they’re actually printed, so every copy is the same yet feels personal. Look up lithography to see how artists turn stone into pictures.
Santiago Cárdenas (b. 1937) was a Colombian artist, born in Bogotá.
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