Josef AlbersModern Master of Color

Mery-et LescherSummer 2011

Josef Albers(1888-1976)

Bauhaus School

Black Mountain College

Yale University

1923 - 1933

1933 - 1949

1950 - 1958

Interaction of Color.Josef Albers.

New Haven:Yale University Press,1963.

Josef Albers. Formulation: Articulation.New York: Harry N. Abrams Inc., 1972.Limited Edition: 545/1000.

Folio I/Folder 1

Folio I/Folder 2

Folio I/Folder 4

Top:Folio II/Folder 16

Right:Folio I/Folder 18

The Prints of Josef Albers:A Catalogue Raisonné 1915-1976.

Brenda Danilowitz.

New York: Hudson Hills Press, 2001.

Upper:Folio II/Folder 11

Right:Folio II/Folder 12

The Ringling Edition of Formulation: Articulation Portfolio II

Left:Folio II/Folder 2

Right:Folio II/Folder 12

Upper:Folio II/Folder 2

Right:Folio II/Folder 3

Danilowitz’s Catalogue Raisonné

Josef Albers: Color Genius

Joanna Weber.

New Haven: Yale University Press, 2006.

• Folio I/Folder 13 &14 –Images show a progression into 3-dimensional space.

• Folio I/Folder 21 – Skyscrapers and Windows – demonstrates how the eyereferences vertical and horizontal lines in composition.

• Folio I/Folder 31 –Graphic Tectonic series, Albers’ theory of Synopsis and Syntax.

• Folio II/Folder 17 – Albers talks about color theory in his art.

• Folio II/Folder 18 – A poem by Albers called, On My Work.

• Folio II/Folder 20 – Wood as water, where the woodblock texture resemblesthe moving surface of water.

• Folio II/Folder 66 & 67 – The text features an early artist statement by Albers.

Examples from the Foundation: Articulation series

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Homage to the Square

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East WallFlat CasesFolio I/Folder 16 Folio II/Folder 15

Title WallLooking North

South WallDidactic Panel

Variants

West Wall

Educational Outreach

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Formulation: Articulation

Thank Youto all the departments that

contributed to my project this summer.

I couldn’t have done it without you.

Josef AlbersArt in its very nature is new in formulation,

articulation, though constant in its task to reveal and to arouse emotion. All real art is or was modern in its time, daring and new, demonstrating a constant change in seeing and feeling. If revival had been a perpetual virtue, we still would live in cave and earth pits.

In art, tradition is to create, not to revive.

(J A from “Present and/or Past,” printed in Design, 1946.)