JOSEPH ALBERS by Helen Brough
April 15, 2020
J Joseph Albers (1888-1976) In Albers’s world, color seduced, deceived, beguiled. These characteristics made color the most fascinating of art’s formal elements. Albers’s passion for color prompted his decision to launch the first full-blown course in color ever given, and certainly the first one based exclusively on direct observation of color’s nature. Color behaved. Color was magic. His book ‘Interaction of Color’ is the record of an experimental way of studying color, and of teaching color. It is a momentous guide which compels the reader to engage...
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