Josef Albers
Formulation: Articulation | Folio 1 / Folder 7, 1972
Color screenprint
Paper: 15 x 40 in
Paper: 38.1 x 101.6 cm
Paper: 38.1 x 101.6 cm
Edition #104/1000
Copyright Josef Albers
Further images
I : 7 Two enlarged woodcuts (both from 1933) originally printed in black but shown here in a middle gray ink. Left: One unending large curve, crossing itself repeatedly, overlaps...
I : 7
Two enlarged woodcuts (both from 1933) originally printed in black but shown here in a middle gray ink.
Left: One unending large curve, crossing itself repeatedly, overlaps and encloses an evenly distributed woodgrain. The curve, which was incised with a razor blade into a very hard wood veneer (glued on top of a soft linoplate), remained invisible until a chisel lifted horizontal strips of woodgrain, alternately left and right along the curve. The resulting effect of this treatment led to its title, Sea.
Right: White Circle. As far as I know, nature does not provide this kind of parallel grain. The woodblock was glued together with selected and appropriate wood strips. Only the central circle and its edged frame have been cut and excavated. The horizontal white lines were not, but were actually soft grain pushed down with a bookbinder’s bone folder.
Two enlarged woodcuts (both from 1933) originally printed in black but shown here in a middle gray ink.
Left: One unending large curve, crossing itself repeatedly, overlaps and encloses an evenly distributed woodgrain. The curve, which was incised with a razor blade into a very hard wood veneer (glued on top of a soft linoplate), remained invisible until a chisel lifted horizontal strips of woodgrain, alternately left and right along the curve. The resulting effect of this treatment led to its title, Sea.
Right: White Circle. As far as I know, nature does not provide this kind of parallel grain. The woodblock was glued together with selected and appropriate wood strips. Only the central circle and its edged frame have been cut and excavated. The horizontal white lines were not, but were actually soft grain pushed down with a bookbinder’s bone folder.
