Josef Albers
Josef Albers
Josef Albers was a German-born American artist 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 twentieth century...
NationalityGerman
ProfessionArtist
Date of Birth19 March 1888
CountryGermany
heart painting curious
Simultaneous contrast is not just a curious optical phenomenon - it is the very heart of painting.
style thermometers
I have invented the Thermometer style.
resonance
I count all the time on resonance. I call on this, you see.
artist individualism scientist
In Italy the artist is a god. Now if the artist is a god, the scientist is likewise a god.
way paint spread
I paint the way I spread butter on pumpernickel.
color deceiving
Color deceives continuously.
color want function
I want color and form to have contradictorily functions.
paint painter
A painter paints because he has no time not to paint.
way taught students
I have taught my students not to apply rules or mechanical ways of seeing.
independent color harmony
Independent of harmony rules, any color 'goes' or 'works' with any other color, presupposing that their quantities are appropriate.
artistic means perceive prove relative studies
The aim of our studies is to prove that color is the most relative means of artistic expression, that we never really perceive what color is physically.
almost fact medium physically relative seen visual
In visual perception a color is almost never seen as it really is - as it physically is. This fact makes color the most relative medium in art.
again came horizontal intensity leading straight stuff submit suddenly vertical
When I came from horizontal vertical straight all old stuff then suddenly I go also again in curved lines. And there I submit to changes in the intensity of my hand leading a tool, you see.
against falling hundred knees onto result spoken teaching thousands
You see, I have in my teaching - I always say I've done it for a hundred years and have had thousands of students - I have always spoken against just falling onto your knees for so-called accidents, I mean a result you are not responsible for.