Josef Albers
Formulation: Articulation | Folio 1 / Folder 32, 1972
Color screenprint
Paper: 15 x 40 in
Paper: 38.1 x 101.6 cm
Paper: 38.1 x 101.6 cm
Edition #427/1000
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Further images
I : 32 Two new versions of Prefacio, from the Graphic Tectonic series of 1942. (Originally on white paper, shown here on gray.) Left: Black on a gray ground. Here...
I : 32
Two new versions of Prefacio, from the Graphic Tectonic series of 1942. (Originally on white paper, shown here on gray.)
Left: Black on a gray ground. Here all horizontals appear lighter than the verticals.
Right: We reversed further, to gray on black, and this time the heavier lines appear lighter.
Comparing left and right: The steps leading to the openings are lighted at the left from above and from below, or, in cartographic reading, by North and South light. At the right, the light enters from West and East. Thus art is trying anew to do more than nature: two polar lighting directions at the same time.
Two new versions of Prefacio, from the Graphic Tectonic series of 1942. (Originally on white paper, shown here on gray.)
Left: Black on a gray ground. Here all horizontals appear lighter than the verticals.
Right: We reversed further, to gray on black, and this time the heavier lines appear lighter.
Comparing left and right: The steps leading to the openings are lighted at the left from above and from below, or, in cartographic reading, by North and South light. At the right, the light enters from West and East. Thus art is trying anew to do more than nature: two polar lighting directions at the same time.
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