Untitled

Untitled

Wifredo Lam

1946

graphite

From the collection of Museum of Modern Art

About this work

This image shows a brown paper with a pencil and ink drawing. The drawing has lots of lines and shapes that look like they're moving. There are some big shapes that look like stars or flowers, and some smaller lines that look like they're coming out of the big shapes. The drawing is very detailed and has a lot of texture. You can see the lines and scratches that the artist made with the pencil and ink. The paper is a little wrinkled and has some spots on it, which adds to the texture of the drawing. The artist, Wifredo Lam, used a technique called cross-hatching to create the texture and depth in this drawing. If you want to learn more about this technique, you can look up cross-hatching.

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