Sylvia Plimack Mangold
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Sylvia Plimack Mangold is an American
artist
, painter
, printmaker, and pastelist. She is known for her representational depictions of interiors and landscape
s.
Sylvia Plimack was born in New York City
, grew up in Queens
, and attended the High School of Music and Art in Manhattan
. She intended to study nursing at Hunter College
, but her parents encouraged her to pursue her interest in art, and she was accepted into the program at Cooper Union
in 1956. She continued her studies at Yale University
and graduated with a B.F.A.
in 1961. In the same year she married Yale classmate and fellow painter Robert Mangold
.
After studying at Yale with William Bailey, Mangold worked as a representational painter. Her paintings in the early 1960s were photorealistic
renderings of floors, compositions characterized by hard-edged angles into which mirror images were introduced, making more complex the works' illusionism. In the 1970s Mangold began painting landscapes near her home in Washingtonville, New York
, and added trompe l'oeil
elements such as metal rulers and masking tape along the borders of the images. Beginning in the 1980s, the landscape paintings focused on individual trees, their branches cropped so as to emphasize abstract shapes, yet based on observation from nature.
Mangold received a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts
in 1975. Her work has been the subject of solo exhibitions at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
, the Neuberger Museum of Art at the State University of New York at Purchase
, the Albright-Knox Art Gallery
, and the Wadsworth Atheneum
in Hartford, Connecticut
, and is represented in the aforementioned museums in Boston, Hartford, and the Brooklyn Museum of Art.
She is the mother of film director
and screenwriter
James Mangold
.
United States
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artist
Artist
An artist is a person engaged in one or more of any of a broad spectrum of activities related to creating art, practicing the arts and/or demonstrating an art. The common usage in both everyday speech and academic discourse is a practitioner in the visual arts only...
, painter
Painting
Painting is the practice of applying paint, pigment, color or other medium to a surface . The application of the medium is commonly applied to the base with a brush but other objects can be used. In art, the term painting describes both the act and the result of the action. However, painting is...
, printmaker, and pastelist. She is known for her representational depictions of interiors and landscape
Landscape art
Landscape art is a term that covers the depiction of natural scenery such as mountains, valleys, trees, rivers, and forests, and especially art where the main subject is a wide view, with its elements arranged into a coherent composition. In other works landscape backgrounds for figures can still...
s.
Sylvia Plimack was born in New York City
New York City
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, grew up in Queens
Queens
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, and attended the High School of Music and Art in Manhattan
Manhattan
Manhattan is the oldest and the most densely populated of the five boroughs of New York City. Located primarily on the island of Manhattan at the mouth of the Hudson River, the boundaries of the borough are identical to those of New York County, an original county of the state of New York...
. She intended to study nursing at Hunter College
Hunter College
Hunter College, established in 1870, is a public university and one of the constituent colleges of the City University of New York, located on Manhattan's Upper East Side. Hunter grants undergraduate, graduate, and post-graduate degrees in more than one hundred fields of study, and is recognized...
, but her parents encouraged her to pursue her interest in art, and she was accepted into the program at Cooper Union
Cooper Union
The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art, commonly referred to simply as Cooper Union, is a privately funded college in the East Village neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City, United States, located at Cooper Square and Astor Place...
in 1956. She continued her studies at Yale University
Yale University
Yale University is a private, Ivy League university located in New Haven, Connecticut, United States. Founded in 1701 in the Colony of Connecticut, the university is the third-oldest institution of higher education in the United States...
and graduated with a B.F.A.
Bachelor of Fine Arts
In the United States and Canada, the Bachelor of Fine Arts degree, usually abbreviated BFA, is the standard undergraduate degree for students seeking a professional education in the visual or performing arts. In some countries such a degree is called a Bachelor of Creative Arts or BCA...
in 1961. In the same year she married Yale classmate and fellow painter Robert Mangold
Robert Mangold
Robert Mangold is an American minimalist artist.- Works :“Robert Mangold’s paintings,” wrote Michael Kimmelman in the New York Times in 1997, “are more complicated to describe than they seem, which is partly what’s good about them: the way they invite intense scrutiny, which, in the nature of good...
.
After studying at Yale with William Bailey, Mangold worked as a representational painter. Her paintings in the early 1960s were photorealistic
Photorealism
Photorealism is the genre of painting based on using the camera and photographs to gather information and then from this information creating a painting that appears photographic...
renderings of floors, compositions characterized by hard-edged angles into which mirror images were introduced, making more complex the works' illusionism. In the 1970s Mangold began painting landscapes near her home in Washingtonville, New York
Washingtonville, New York
Washingtonville is a village in Orange County, New York, United States. The population was 5,851 at the 2000 census. It is part of the Poughkeepsie–Newburgh–Middletown, NY Metropolitan Statistical Area as well as the larger New York–Newark–Bridgeport, NY-NJ-CT-PA Combined...
, and added trompe l'oeil
Trompe l'oeil
Trompe-l'œil, which can also be spelled without the hyphen in English as trompe l'oeil, is an art technique involving extremely realistic imagery in order to create the optical illusion that the depicted objects appear in three dimensions.-History in painting:Although the phrase has its origin in...
elements such as metal rulers and masking tape along the borders of the images. Beginning in the 1980s, the landscape paintings focused on individual trees, their branches cropped so as to emphasize abstract shapes, yet based on observation from nature.
Mangold received a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts
National Endowment for the Arts
The National Endowment for the Arts is an independent agency of the United States federal government that offers support and funding for projects exhibiting artistic excellence. It was created by an act of the U.S. Congress in 1965 as an independent agency of the federal government. Its current...
in 1975. Her work has been the subject of solo exhibitions at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
The Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, Massachusetts, is one of the largest museums in the United States, attracting over one million visitors a year. It contains over 450,000 works of art, making it one of the most comprehensive collections in the Americas...
, the Neuberger Museum of Art at the State University of New York at Purchase
State University of New York at Purchase
Purchase College, State University of New York, is a public four-year college located in Purchase, New York, United States. It is one of 13 comprehensive colleges in the State University of New York system...
, the Albright-Knox Art Gallery
Albright-Knox Art Gallery
The Albright-Knox Art Gallery is an art museum located in Delaware Park in Buffalo, New York. The gallery is a major showplace for modern art and contemporary art. It is located directly across the street from Buffalo State College.-History:...
, and the Wadsworth Atheneum
Wadsworth Atheneum
The Wadsworth Atheneum is the oldest public art museum in the United States, with significant holdings of French and American Impressionist paintings, Hudson River School landscapes, modernist masterpieces and contemporary works, as well as extensive holdings in early American furniture and...
in Hartford, Connecticut
Hartford, Connecticut
Hartford is the capital of the U.S. state of Connecticut. The seat of Hartford County until Connecticut disbanded county government in 1960, it is the second most populous city on New England's largest river, the Connecticut River. As of the 2010 Census, Hartford's population was 124,775, making...
, and is represented in the aforementioned museums in Boston, Hartford, and the Brooklyn Museum of Art.
She is the mother of film director
Film director
A film director is a person who directs the actors and film crew in filmmaking. They control a film's artistic and dramatic nathan roach, while guiding the technical crew and actors.-Responsibilities:...
and screenwriter
Screenwriter
Screenwriters or scriptwriters or scenario writers are people who write/create the short or feature-length screenplays from which mass media such as films, television programs, Comics or video games are based.-Profession:...
James Mangold
James Mangold
James Allen Mangold is an American film director and screenwriter. He is perhaps best known for Walk the Line which he co-wrote and directed.-Life and career:...
.