Untitled

Untitled

Sol LeWitt

1974

graphite

From the collection of Museum of Modern Art

About this work

This painting is just a grid of clean, pale rectangles. The paper is folded into neat squares, all the same size, with faint pencil lines marking the edges. There’s no color—just different shades of white and off-white, making the folds look like shadows. The simplicity is the point. The artist made this by folding paper and adding pencil marks, not brushstrokes. It’s all about the idea, not how it looks. Next, check out Sol LeWitt to see how he used basic shapes to make big ideas.

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