Who We're Celebrating Now: Josef Albers
Squares haven’t been the same since Josef Albers applied his spectrums to them…
This leading color theorist has forever impacted how we interpret, design and apply color. This month, we celebrate his invaluable teachings on color theory and relationships. His beginnings as a stained glass maker at the Bauhaus in 1922 lit a fire to his life-long pursuit or color exploration.
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There’s much to learn from this Master of Color - here are two must-own Albers books:
(1) Interaction of Color, is an experimental journey of studying color and teaching color. The cover features a study on color intensity: across this spectrum of 8 tints, shades and tones of red, which do you see as the “truest” red?
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(2) Josef Albers in Mexico: Brings together photographs and photo collages taken during the artist's travels to archeological sites and monuments in Latin America. Josef's encounters with the ruins of Mexico deepened his interest in photography and advanced his experiments in abstract art.
“Mexico is truly the promised land of abstract art,” Josef Albers wrote to his former Bauhaus colleague Vasily Kandinsky in 1936. Josef Albers in Mexico reveals the profound link between the art and architecture of ancient Mesoamerica and Albers’ abstract works on canvas and paper. With his wife, the artist Anni Albers, Albers toured pre-Columbian archeological sites and monuments during his 12 or more trips to Mexico and other Latin American countries between 1935 and 1968. On each visit, Albers took black-and-white photographs of pyramids, shrines, sanctuaries and landscapes, which he later assembled into rarely seen photo collages. The resulting works demonstrate Albers’ continued formal experimentation with geometry, this time accentuating a pre-Columbian aesthetic.
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🌞 P.S. We love this sunny Albers spectrum as Spring starts to make an appearance here in New York cc @albers_foundation #EmotifIcons #emotifReads
