White Lines by I. Rice Pereira

http://www.metmuseum.org/works_of_art/collection_database/modern_art/white_lines_i_rice_pereira/objectview_enlarge.aspx?page=18&sort=0&sortdir=asc&keyword=&fp=1&dd1=21&dd2=0&vw=1&collID=21&OID=210008364&vT=1


This piece is called "White Lines" by I. Rice Pereira. I found it on the website for the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

In the center there is a black background that has several white lines including horizontal lines, vertical lines, diagonal lines, and many of the lines intersect at one point or another. Surrounding the white lines in the center is what could be described as an upside down U. This "U", is created through three rectangles which are shaded in with more lines inside.

I think my eye was first attracted to the stack of horizontal lines in the center. It almost looks like a stack of plywood at a hardware store. This stack repeats a couple more tim3es throughout the piece. All the white lines in the center at first may seem like they are going in random directions, but once you take a closer look, you can see that they begin to form different shapes. For example the lines in the bottom right corner. There is a diagonal line going towards the top left, and it has a semi-circle connected to it which is then shaded in. This looks like a golf club to me.