Joseph Albers
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Josef Albers (March 19, 1888 – March 26, 1976) was a German artist, mathematician and educator whose work, both in Europe and in the United States, formed the basis of some of the most influential and far-reaching art education programs of the 20th century.
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- Every perception of colour is an illusion.. ..we do not see colours as they really are. In our perception they alter one another. (remark around 1949, when he started his ‘Homage to the Square’ series, fh)
- Abstract Art, Anna Moszynska, Thames and Hudson 1990, p. 147
- The concern of the artist is with the discrepancy between physical fact and psychological effect.
- Albers Paints a Picture Elaine de Kooning, Art News 49, November 1950, p. 40, as quoted in Abstract Expressionist Painting in America, W.C, Seitz, Cambridge Massachusetts, 1983, p. 67
- I want color and form to have contradictorily functions.
- Albers Paints a Picture Elaine de Kooning, Art News 49, November 1950, p. 57, , as quoted in Abstract Expressionist Painting in America, W.C, Seitz, Cambridge Massachusetts, 1983, p. 67
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- As it is with people,so it is with colour. We change,correct or reverse our opinions about colours and this opinion may shift back and forth.
- Experience teaches us that in visual perception there is a discrepancy between physical fact and psychic effect.
- I have handled colour as men should behave.
- Instead of training only intellect and memory we consider the development of will, demonstrated in initiative and action, as our main task.
- I want to realise not express my self because while I have learned to think I see I have not learned 'art'.
- In order to make a resume`, the meaning of art is: learn to see and to feel life: that is, cultivate imagination, because there are still marvels in the world, because life is a mystery and always will be. But be aware of it. Therefore art means: you have to believe, to have faith, that is, cultivate vision.
