Untitled

Untitled

Tatsuo Miyajima

1991

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From the collection of Museum of Modern Art

About this work

This work shows three vertical strips of photocopied text glued onto a light background. Each strip has rows of numbers and letters in gray and one highlighted yellow row. The strips are arranged side by side, with a small grid of similar numbers in the bottom left corner. The yellow rows stand out as the only color break in an otherwise monochrome piece. The numbers look like inventory or catalog codes, repeated in a way that feels mechanical. Next, check out cross-hatching to see how artists use repeated lines to create texture.

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