Josef Albers
Formulation: Articulation | Folio 2 / Folder 8, 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
Copyright The Artist
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II : 8 ON MY HOMAGE TO THE SQUARE Seeing several of these paintings next to each other makes it obvious that each painting is an instrumentation in its own....
II : 8
ON MY HOMAGE TO THE SQUARE
Seeing several of these paintings next to each other makes it obvious that each painting is an instrumentation in its own.
This means that they all are of different palettes, and therefore, so to speak, of different climates.
Choice of the colors used, as well as their order, is aimed at an interaction — influencing and changing each other forth and back.
Thus, character and feeling alter from painting to painting without any additional “hand writing,” or so-called texture.
Although the underlying symmetrical and quasi-concentric order of squares remains the same in all paintings — in proportion and placement — these same squares group or single themselves, connect and separate, in many different ways.
In consequence, they move forth and back, in and out, and grow up and down and near and far, enlarged and diminished. All this, to proclaim color autonomy as a means of a plastic organization.
(From an early text.)
ON MY HOMAGE TO THE SQUARE
Seeing several of these paintings next to each other makes it obvious that each painting is an instrumentation in its own.
This means that they all are of different palettes, and therefore, so to speak, of different climates.
Choice of the colors used, as well as their order, is aimed at an interaction — influencing and changing each other forth and back.
Thus, character and feeling alter from painting to painting without any additional “hand writing,” or so-called texture.
Although the underlying symmetrical and quasi-concentric order of squares remains the same in all paintings — in proportion and placement — these same squares group or single themselves, connect and separate, in many different ways.
In consequence, they move forth and back, in and out, and grow up and down and near and far, enlarged and diminished. All this, to proclaim color autonomy as a means of a plastic organization.
(From an early text.)
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Josef Albers, Formulation: Articulation | Folio 1 / Folder 3, 1972
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Josef Albers, Formulation: Articulation | Folio 1 / Folder 4, 1972
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Josef Albers, Formulation: Articulation | Folio 1 / Folder 5, 1972
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Josef Albers, Formulation: Articulation | Folio 1 / Folder 6, 1972
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Josef Albers, Formulation: Articulation | Folio 1 / Folder 7, 1972
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Josef Albers, Formulation: Articulation | Folio 1 / Folder 8, 1972
