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Five Color Frame

1985

Robert Mangold

(American, 1937-)
published by

Crown Point Press

Culture
America
Medium
woodcut
Credit Line
John L. Severance Fund 1990.78
Impression
127
Copyright
© Robert Mangold / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
This artwork is known to be under copyright.
Location
Not on view
Print

Description

Relying upon an abstract, geometry-based style, Mangold uses only a few elements-lines and fields of color-to achieve a rigorous order he then subverts. His work arouses and then confounds expectations. For instance, in Five Color Frame, the black line should form a perfect oval but does not. It is pulled, pushed, and carefully deformed by the colored rectangles through which it passes. This tension enlivens the work, but in the end, the colors, lines, and shapes are resolved into a satisfying balance.

Five Color Frame

1985

Robert Mangold, Crown Point Press

(American, 1937-)
America

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