Untitled
1998
ink
From the collection of Museum of Modern Art
1998
ink
From the collection of Museum of Modern Art
Untitled is a 1998 ink by Will Barnet, depicting Mirror, held at Museum of Modern Art.
You see two flat shapes—a dark triangle and a light circle—floating against a pale background. The edges are clean, the colors simple. Barnet spent decades stripping his work down to basics. By 1998, he was in his eighties and had stopped naming pieces. He let the shapes do the talking instead. If you like this quiet geometry, look up lithography to see how ink and stone work together.
Will Barnet (May 25, 1911 – November 13, 2012) was an American visual artist and teacher, known for his paintings, watercolors, drawings, and prints depicting the human figure and animals, both in casual scenes of daily…
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