I want to talk to you about Josef Albers.
Albers was a teacher of art and the study colour. He was arguably one of the most influential art teachers in the 20th Century. He developed influential programs at the Bauhaus, and taught the Yale graphic arts program.
The important thing about Albers was that he was very controversial for most of his career. His experimental perspective on art and colour polarized the critical art community. His 1963 book “Interaction of Color,” an exploration of his colour theories and his lesson style was smeared by many critics upon release. The antagonism he seemed to flare without intention was part of a larger discomfort with his abnormal ideas, and modernism as a whole.
Of course, now Albers highly regarded, as is the modernist era of art, and “Interaction of Color” is seen by some as revolutionary. I recently finished “Interaction of Color” myself, and it’s hard to say that I learned any concrete ideas that I can use. Rather, what I felt I got from the book was inspiration and excitement, a challenge to seriously think about color and space in new and more interesting ways.
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Albers was a teacher of art and the study colour. He was arguably one of the most influential art teachers in the 20th Century. He developed influential programs at the Bauhaus, and taught the Yale graphic arts program.
The important thing about Albers was that he was very controversial for most of his career. His experimental perspective on art and colour polarized the critical art community. His 1963 book “Interaction of Color,” an exploration of his colour theories and his lesson style was smeared by many critics upon release. The antagonism he seemed to flare without intention was part of a larger discomfort with his abnormal ideas, and modernism as a whole.
Of course, now Albers highly regarded, as is the modernist era of art, and “Interaction of Color” is seen by some as revolutionary. I recently finished “Interaction of Color” myself, and it’s hard to say that I learned any concrete ideas that I can use. Rather, what I felt I got from the book was inspiration and excitement, a challenge to seriously think about color and space in new and more interesting ways.
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