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Systems of Clarity

Geometry as empathy

ART–OTH–MAN

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Geometry as empathy

ART–OTH–MAN

Geometry as empathy

Index Code:

ART–OTH–MAN

Orgin:

North Tonawanda, USA / New York, USA

Field Notes:

geometry as empathy · proportion as thought · form as tenderness

Defining Moment:

Early 1960s — geometry as empathy; order set the language

Robert Mangold

(

b. 1937

)

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Mangold built a world of line and color.

His shaped canvases merge math and feeling — ellipse, circle, and arc softened into calm proportion.

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In his world, geometry breathes; abstraction listens.

Structural Focus

Reduction with Atmosphere

Form is reduced without becoming cold or purely rational. Minimal means are used to produce calm, resonance, or emotional density.

In Robert Mangold’s work, this approach appears where edge defines composition.

Position

Reduction with Atmosphere

Form is reduced without becoming cold or purely rational. Minimal means are used to produce calm, resonance, or emotional density.

In Robert Mangold’s work, this approach appears where edge defines composition.

Chromatic Fields

Color fields operate as spatial and structural organizers.

Systems of Clarity

Order and coherence arise through disciplined systems and constraints.

Proportion organizes coherence through measured intervals, scale, and relation.

Structure holds the work through rules, joins, and controlled relationships between parts.

Form operates as a site for material, perceptual, and conceptual inquiry.

Reduction clarifies form through repetition, scale, and restraint.

Form separates from representation to prioritize structure and perception.

Observartory

Robert Mangold — Ring Paintings

Structual Relations

The following practices are connected through shared structural decisions in form, material, and spatial logic.

Repetition as calm

Stripe as structure

In Dialogue

Border as light