Josef Albers

I have this book, The Interaction of Color by Josef Albers, out of the library at the moment. First published in 1963, it appeared in pape...

At Colour Studio, our job as architectural colorists is to please the eye, but visual perception of any one color is one of the hardest variables to control. Josef Albers, German-born American artist and professor, taught that all color is relative. His work explores the variances in color relationships and how subtle shifts in those relationships can have drastic results. Josef Albers "Homage to the Square" Albers stated that "... In visual perception a color is almost never seen as it…

Never Before Prospectus Artist: Josef Albers (American (born Germany), Bottrop 1888–1976 New Haven, Connecticut) Publisher: Published by Tyler Graphics, Ltd. (American, Bedford, New York) Printer: Printed by Tyler Graphics, Ltd. (American, Bedford, New York) Date: 1976 Medium: Hand printed screen miniature Dimensions: image: 4 7/16 x 4 7/8 in. (11.3 x 12.4 cm) sheet: 7 11/16 x 8 1/16 in. (19.5 x 20.5 cm) Classification: Prints Credit Line: Gift of Tyler Graphics, Inc. 1976 Accession Number…

Collage ink chart and diagram for Never Before series.

We're excited to introduce our new series LOVE. Women, artists, environmentalists - human beings whose work we love and whose beauty we want to share with you. First up, the prolific Bauhaus textile artist and printmaker, Anni Albers. "Being creative is not so much the desire to do something as the listening to that which wants to be done: the dictation of the materials."

Every now and then, I need a break. I just want to be quiet and look at something cool for while. Enter Josef Albers' Homage to a Square.

The book, Interaction of Color by Josef Albers is a book that looks at the effects of colour and how they interact with each other. Each section within the book consists of exercises which explain …

A review of Josef Alber's text 'Interaction of Color.' Albers was a painter, designer & educator who is regarded as a pioneer of 20th-century Modernism.

Collage ink chart and diagram for Never Before series.

Welcome back to an ongoing, freewheeling conversation on color with Thomas Bosket and Langdon Graves, who both teach color theory at Parsons The New School for Design. (Read part 1 to catch up.) Do you have any knockout students in your color theory classes right now? Thomas Bosket: I haven’t taught color this past year, so here are some students from previous years: one work by Liz Marshall exhibited the Bezold effect and the economic use of color. [Ed note: the Bezold effec