Albers 'Wrestling' (1977) inIn 1959, a by Albers, Two Structural Constellations was engraved in the lobby of the in. For the entrance of the lobby, he created Two Portals (1961), a 42-feet by 14-feet mural of alternating glass bands in white and brown that recede into two centers to create an illusion of depth. In the 1960s, who was designing the with and, commissioned Albers to make a mural. The artist reworked City, a glass construction that he had designed in 1929 at the Bauhaus, and renamed it Manhattan.
The giant abstract mural of black, white, and red strips arranged in interwoven columns stood 28-feet high and 55-feet wide and was installed in the lobby of the building; it was removed during a lobby redesign in c. Before his death in 1976 Albers left exact specifications of the work so it could easily be replicated. In 1967, his painted mural Growth (1965) as well as Loggia Wall (1965), a, were installed on the campus of the. Other architectural works include Gemini (1972), a relief for the Grand Avenue National Bank lobby in, and Reclining Figure (1972), a mural for the in Manhattan destroyed in 1980. At the invitation of a former student, the architect, Albers designed the mural Wrestling (1976) for Seidler's Mutual Life Center in, Australia.Style and influences He was known to meticulously list the specific manufacturer's colours and he used on the back of his works, as if the colours were catalogued components of an optical experiment. His work represents a transition between traditional European art and the new American art.
It incorporated European influences from the and the movement, and its intensity and smallness of scale were typically European, but his influence fell heavily on American artists of the late 1950s and the 1960s. ' abstract painters drew on his use of and intense colors, while artists and further explored his interest in.In an article about the artist, published in 1950, concluded that however impersonal his paintings might at first appear, not one of them 'could have been painted by any one but Josef Albers himself.' Although their relationship was often tense, and sometimes, even combative, later identified Albers as his most important teacher. Quotes of the artist - 'Every perception of colour is an illusion.we do not see colors as they really are. In our perception they alter one another.'
1949, when Albers started his first ' paintings - 'THE ORIGIN OF ART: The discrepancy between physical fact and psychic effect. THE CONTENT OF ART: Visual information of our reaction to life. THE MEASURE OF ART: The ratio of effort to effect. THE AIM OF ART: Revelation and evocation of vision.' 1964, from his text 'Homage to the square' - 'For me, is real, probably more real than nature. I'll go further and say that abstraction is nearer my heart.
I prefer to see with closed eyes.' 1966 - 'Art is not to be looked at. Art is looking at us.To be able to perceive it we need to be receptive. Therefore art is there where art meets us now. The content of art is visual formulation of our relation to life. The measure of art, the ratio of effort to effect, the aim of art revelation and evocation of vision.
1968, in 'Oral history interview with Josef Albers - 'I made true the first English sentence Albers came from Germany that I uttered (better stuttered) on our arrival at in November 1933. When a student asked me what I was going to teach I said: 'to open eyes'. And this has become the motto of all my teaching.'
1970, in 'A conversation with Josef Albers' Exhibitions In 1936, Albers was given his first in Manhattan at. He participated in (1955) and (1968) in. A major Albers exhibition, organized by the, traveled in South America, Mexico, and the United States from 1965 to 1967. In 1971 he was the first living artist to be given a solo show at the in Manhattan. In 2010, a show of 80 oil works on paper, many never exhibited before, was mounted by the in, later travelling to other venues, including in, and in Manhattan. In 2014, an exhibition at the Elliott Museum in Stuart, FL called 'Albers and Heirs' featured the work of Albers,.
Legacy The Josef Albers papers, documents from 1929 to 1970, were donated by the artist to the 's in 1969 and 1970. In 1971 (nearly five years before his death), Albers founded the Josef and Anni Albers Foundation, a nonprofit organization he hoped would further 'the revelation and evocation of vision through art.'
Today, this organization not only serves as the office for the estates of both Josef Albers and his wife, but also supports exhibitions and focused on the works of both Albers. The official foundation building is located in, and 'includes a central research and archival storage center to accommodate the Foundation's art collections, library and archives, and offices, as well as residence studios for visiting artists.' The executive director of the foundation is. Later the foundation was instrumental in having four from Italy, represented as the work of Albers and on sale in auction houses and galleries in France and Germany, seized by the police.In 1997, one year after the auction house, had bought the, the Josef and Anni Albers Foundation, the main beneficiary of the of both artists, did not renew its three-year contract with the gallery. Currently, the foundation is represented by in New York, in London, and the in London, and now, a large part of his estate is held by the in Bottrop, Germany, where he was born. Criticism Joseph Albers' book Interaction of Color is widely influential but, according to Alan Lee, has not received close critical attention.
Lee undertakes to refute Albers' general claims about colour experience (that colour deceives continually) and to show that Albers' system of perceptual education is fundamentally misleading (Albers 'places practice before theory'). Four topics in Albers' account of colour are examined critically: additive and subtractive colour mixture, the tonal relations of colours, the and simultaneous contrast. In each case Albers is shown to have made fundamental errors with serious consequences for his general claims about colour and his pedagogical method. It is suggested that Albers' belief in the importance of colour deception is related to a misconception about aesthetic appreciation (that it depends upon some kind of confusion about visual perception). It is suggested that the scientific colour hypothesis of should be considered in lieu of the concepts held by Albers. Finally, there are implications for a reassessment of Albers' artworks that might follow a loss of faith in his colour concepts that seem to have been their foundation. Value on the art market Several paintings in his series 'Homage to the Square' have outsold their estimates.
Homage to the Square: Joy (1964) sold for $1.5 million, nearly double its estimate, during a 2007 sale at Sotheby's. More recently, 'Study for Homage to the Square,R-III E.B.' Also sold for around twice the estimated $545,000–$700,000, eventually reaching $1.22 million at auction.
In his publication The Interaction of Color, artist and teacher Josef Albers argued that there is no way to understand colors except in relationship to one another. Advocating practical experience over the study of artistic theories or scientific principles, he laid out a series of exercises by which to explore the ways adjacent colors appear to change one another. These straightforward assignments reveal the complex relativity of vision—how the same shade of green looks different placed on a blue background than on yellow; or how three different reds on a white background look similar, but become distinct when placed on yet another red. Albers claimed that, “In my color book there is no new theory of color. But, in it, there is a way to learn to see.”A radical departure from conventional art education when first published in 1963, Albers’s book is now considered a classic. Produced originally as a limited edition of screen prints, The Interaction of Color was reissued as a paperback volume in 1971 and reprinted again in 2006 and 2013.
For decades, it has been assigned to countless art and design students.Renowned both for his teaching and his paintings, Albers is a critical figure in 20th-century art. A member of the Bauhaus, Germany’s influential modernist art school in the 1920s, Albers immigrated to the United States in 1933 and taught at Black Mountain College and Yale University.
In 1950, he began his rigorous chromatic investigation “Homage to the Square,” a series of paintings and prints that sustained his attention for 25 years. In 1971, Albers became the first living artist to be given a retrospective exhibition at The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.This installation of selections from SMoCA’s permanent collection celebrated Albers’s legacy and the 50th anniversary of The Interaction of Color.
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The Albers prints on view are from his 1972 portfolio Formulation: Articulation. They were shown alongside works by other artists who have shared Albers’s fascination with color.