Josef Albers
Formulation: Articulation | Folio 2 / Folder 17, 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 : 17 I think art parallels life; it is not a report on nature or an intimate disclosure of inner secrets. Color, in my opinion, behaves like man —...
II : 17
I think art parallels life; it is not a report on nature or an intimate disclosure of inner secrets. Color, in my opinion, behaves like man — in two distinct ways: first in self-realization and then in the realizations of relationships with others. In my paintings I have tried to make two polarities meet — independence and interdependence, as, for instance, in Pompeian art. There’s a certain red the Pompeians used that speaks in both these ways, first in its relation to other colors around it, and then as it appears alone, keeping its own face. In other words, one must combine both being an individual and being a member of society. That’s the parallel. I’ve handled color as man should behave. With trained and sensitive eyes, you can recognize this double behavior of color. And from all this, you may conclude that I consider ethics and aesthetics as one.
(From Katharine Kuh: The Artist’s Voice, 1962, pp. 11–12.)
I think art parallels life; it is not a report on nature or an intimate disclosure of inner secrets. Color, in my opinion, behaves like man — in two distinct ways: first in self-realization and then in the realizations of relationships with others. In my paintings I have tried to make two polarities meet — independence and interdependence, as, for instance, in Pompeian art. There’s a certain red the Pompeians used that speaks in both these ways, first in its relation to other colors around it, and then as it appears alone, keeping its own face. In other words, one must combine both being an individual and being a member of society. That’s the parallel. I’ve handled color as man should behave. With trained and sensitive eyes, you can recognize this double behavior of color. And from all this, you may conclude that I consider ethics and aesthetics as one.
(From Katharine Kuh: The Artist’s Voice, 1962, pp. 11–12.)
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