Robert Mangold not only likes to create art, but to also create visual problems for his audience. Mangold does this through using paint, graphite, and his own unique canvases.
Mangold really enjoys making his works in ways that mess with viewers' preconceptions about paintings. He does this by making circular canvases with a hole in the middle. The middle of the painting is where people generally think the action will take place. However, since the middle is gone in Mangold's pieces, viewers can experience discord in what they see and what they previously thought a painting should be. Nature also seems to work its way into Mangold's pieces. Although he claims that his works are about culture and not nature, Mangold does admit that certain scenes from nature somehow infiltrate his work.
Line, shape, and color are the elements that dominate most of Mangold's pieces. His art is geometric in nature, consisting almost entirely of circles. Within these circles are lines that crisscross, making new shapes as they intersect, and lines that accentuate the roundness of the canvas. Mangold's works are mainly monochromatic, adding to the simplicity of his simple yet complexly-shaped pieces.
A big part of Mangold's art is the "idea of what's missing." Perhaps, though, if you were to take a closer look at Mangold's pieces, you'll realize that there's nothing missing at all.
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"Robert Mangold." Art21. PBS, n.d. Web. 1 Mar. 2014.
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