Untitled

Untitled

William Anastasi

1987

graphite

From the collection of Museum of Modern Art

About this work

This image is a sea of tiny pencil lines packed so tightly they blur together. No shapes or colors stand out—just a uniform gray field made from countless strokes. The lines don’t form anything recognizable, just a dense, tangled web. The artist used pencil on paper stretched over canvas, layering strokes to create texture. It’s all about the repetition and the way the lines overlap. If you like this kind of dense mark-making, try looking up cross-hatching.

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