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Josef AlbersArtworks. View all 82 artworks. Josef Albers lived in the XIX – XX cent., a remarkable figure of German Constructivism and Concrete Art (Concretism). Find more works of this artist at Wikiart.org – best visual art database.
Jul 1, 2016 · Item Details. A seascape oil painting by J.F. Anderson. The painting depicts a pair of white shore birds flying over a sand dune, the sky blending onto the ocean, the separation differentiated by a curling ocean wave; the painting is signed in the lower right corner.
- Looking Deeply
- The Bauhaus
- From Dessau to Black Mountain
- Tradition and Variation
Take a moment to really look deeply at this example of Josef Albers’ extensive series, Homage to the Square. The composition of this painting is simple enough – four progressively smaller squares within each other, each in a different color, and all aligned closer to the bottom of the composition than to the top. So stand back from this Homage to t...
Though Albers began work on the Homage paintings in 1950, he was introduced to color theory very early in his career, when he enrolled as a student at the Bauhaus in 1920. The Bauhaus was a revolutionary school of art and design in Germany, founded by Walter Gropius in 1919. Its philosophy was to integrate the principles of fine art and functional ...
In 1925, the year that the Bauhaus moved from Weimar to their iconic building in Dessau, Gropius invited Albers to be the first student of the Bauhaus to join the faculty. Albers worked with Paul Klee in the stained glass workshop and was the longest-serving member of the faculty when the school was shut down by the Nazis in 1933. But the Bauhaus w...
The idea of creating space through color goes back to a technique known as atmospheric perspective. The best examples can be seen in landscapes of the Dutch Golden Age and Italian Renaissance artists such as Leonardo da Vinci. The principle of atmospheric perspective is that objects that are far away are less saturated in color, and have less contr...
Medium: Oil on Masonite. Dimensions: 48 × 48 in. (121.9 × 121.9 cm) Classification: Paintings. Credit Line: Arthur Hoppock Hearn Fund, 1959. Accession Number: 59.160. Rights and Reproduction: © 2024 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Modern and Contemporary Art at The Met.
Jul 26, 2012 · By Holland Cotter. July 26, 2012. Abstract paintings of an emptied-out kind are like meditation devices. To look at them in a serious way requires sustained concentration. To create them,...
Homage to the Square: Diffused is one of hundreds of concentric-square paintings the artist made between 1949 and 1976. Each work in the series is designed to demonstrate the complex perceptual effects produced by the interaction of different colors.
Oct 1, 2019 · British artist Jason Anderson creates colorful abstract paintings composed of pixelated swatches of pastel-toned oil paint. Up-close, the artist’s paintings look like blocky layers of shapes and color; but, from afar, his scenes—featuring cityscapes, roads, trains, and marinas—are revealed.
