Frases de Josef Albers

Josef Albers fue un artista y profesor alemán cuyo trabajo, tanto en Europa como en los Estados Unidos, creó la base de algunos de los programas de educación artística más influyentes del siglo XX. Su esposa fue la también artista Anni Albers. Wikipedia  

✵ 19. marzo 1888 – 25. marzo 1976
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Josef Albers: Frases en inglés

“But besides relatedness and influence I should like to see that my colors remain, as much as possible, a 'face' –their own 'face', as it was achieved – uniquely — and I believe consciously - in Pompeian wall-paintings - by admitting coexistence of such polarities as being dependent and independent — being dividual and individual.
Often, with paintings, more attention is drawn to the outer, physical, structure of the color means than to the inner, functional, structure of the color action... Here now follow a few details of the technical manipulation of the colorants which in my painting usually are oil paints and only rarely casein paints.
On a ground of the whitest white available – half or less absorbent – and built up in layers – on the rough side of panels of untempered Masonite – paint is applied with a palette knife directly from the tube to the panel and as thin and even as possible in one primary coat. Consequently there is no under or over painting or modeling or glazing and no added texture – so-called... As a result this kind of painting presents an inlay (intarsia) of primary thin paints films – not layered, laminated, nor mixed wet, half or more dry, paint skins.
Such homogeneous thin and primary films will dry, that is, oxidize, of course, evenly – and so without physical and/or chemical complication – to a healthy, durable paint surface of increasing luminosity.”

4 quotes from: 'The Color in my Painting'
Homage to the square' (1964)

“The concern of the artist is with the discrepancy between physical fact and psychological effect.”

Quote from: '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

“Every perception of colour is an illusion.... we do not see colours as they really are. In our perception they alter one another.”

Quoted in: Abstract Art, Anna Moszynska, Thames and Hudson 1990, p. 147
Quote c. 1949, when Albers started his 'Homage to the Square' series of paintings

“In order to use color effectively it is necessary to recognize that color deceives continually.”

Quoted in: Faber Birren (1976) Color Perception in Art. p. 20

“A painter works to formulate with or in colors... My paintings follow the second option.”

Fuente: De tweede Helft Ad de Visser, SUN Nijmegen, The Netherlands, 1998, p. 123

“I want color and form to have contradictorily functions.”

Quote from: '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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