Not on view
Date
1995
Classification
Prints
Medium
Aquatint
Dimensions
Sheet: 22 1/8 × 30 1/16in. (56.2 × 76.4 cm) Plate: 16 × 24in. (40.6 × 61 cm)
Accession number
2008.115
Edition
10/80
Publication
Printed by Burnet Editions; published by Artists Space
Credit line
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; gift of Altria Group, Inc.
Rights and reproductions
© Robert Mangold / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
API
artworks/33537
In 1994 and 1995, Robert Mangold worked on the Curved Plane/Figure Series, which utilizes ellipses drawn with black pencil and abutting panels of multiple colors to create oppositions between the flat painted surfaces (planes) and the illusionistic results of the torqued linear forms (figures). The ellipses seem to be rotating in space, a sensation of movement that Mangold enhances by drawing them with a line that continues across two different background colors. The artist explored a similar composition in Untitled (for Artists Space), an etching with aquatint he produced to benefit the endowment of the venerable New York non-profit organization.