Untitled, 1995 - Robert Mangold
About the Work
About Untitled
Ellipses have appeared in Robert Mangold's work since the early '70s, when he painted them horizontally inside rectangles. He says that he came back to ellipses in the '80s. "I wanted to use it vertically," he says, "but if ...Read More
Ellipses have appeared in Robert Mangold's work since the early '70s, when he painted them horizontally inside rectangles. He says that he came back to ellipses in the '80s. "I wanted to use it vertically," he says, "but if you stand an oval up vertically it kind of looks heavy on the bottom so I decided to make it in an egg form, with the ellipse fatter at the top and narrower at the bottom. This gave buoyancy to the form."Read Less
About the Artist
About Robert Mangold
An iconic Minimalist, Robert Mangold is a past master at using colors and forms in unexpected ways, fusing differently shaped canvases and drawn shapes to ...Read More
An iconic Minimalist, Robert Mangold is a past master at using colors and forms in unexpected ways, fusing differently shaped canvases and drawn shapes to create new, formalist structures. In his paintings, he strives to employ color relationships to forge an anonymous and featureless mood. Drawn to less "aggressive" and "dynamic" tonal relationships in color, Mangold uses a straightforward and non-referential perspective but often draws on the particular, channeling everything from manila envelopes to the negative spaces in New York City architecture. Read Less
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Etching with aquatint.Authentication
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