Untitled

1969

Vibrations: Untitled, 1969. Jesús Rafael Soto (Venezuelan, 1923–2005), published by Denise René, Paris. Color screenprint; image: 45.7 x 38.7 cm (18 x 15 1/4 in.); sheet: 50.8 x 68 cm (20 x 26 3/4 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, The Harold T. Clark Educational Extension Fund 1970.537 © Artists Right Society (ARS), New York Jesús Rafael Soto aligned himself with kinetic art, a movement that spread across Latin America in the decades after World War II. Rather than focusing on representation or abstraction, these artists used bright colors and eye-bending forms to suggest movement and engage the viewer through visual perception. In this print, Soto contrasts layers of crisscrossing lines to create a sense of three-dimensional space. Like many Latin American artists associated with kinetic art, Jesús Rafael Soto worked in Paris, where he made this artwork in collaboration with a master printer.