1946
oil
paperboard
From the collection of Museum of Modern Art
Dominant colour
Untitled is a 1946 oil by Theodoros Stamos, a Abstract Expressionism work, held at Museum of Modern Art.
This painting shows a dark, rounded shape with a red-orange circle inside it. Below, two pale, curved lines look like keys or bones against a rough, grayish background. The edges are uneven, and the colors are flat with no shadows. The keys might stand for something hidden or locked away. The artist painted it in 1946, right after World War II, when people were thinking a lot about secrets and uncertainty. If you like this style, check out Theodoros Stamos—he made other abstract works like this.
Theodoros Stamos was a Greek-American painter. He is one of the youngest painters of the original group of abstract expressionist painters, which included Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning, and Mark Rothko. His later…
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