Piccole Note
Anna Maria Maiolino
Brazilian, born Italy 1942
1985
A small-sheet sequence of ink and colored-ink studies on paper in which the artist tests how simple blots and washes—rendered in blue and black within hand-drawn rectangles—behave as variations of mark, tone, and absorption.
A measured grid of pale-blue rectangles punctuated by black ovals and amorphous stains immediately catches the eye, each box offering a different edge—crisp, feathered, pooled, or translucent—so you read the piece as a quiet sequence of subtle shifts in texture and mood.
By treating tiny variations as a serial composition, Maiolino turns ordinary mark-making into a lyrical study of process and repetition that links postminimal concerns with a diary-like intimacy, expanding how drawing can register bodily gesture and material behavior.
Medium
Ink and colored ink on paper
Dimensions
8 5/8 x 12 3/8" (21.9 x 31.4 cm)
Classification
Department
Credit
Purchase
Accession
2423.2001.12
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