Josef Albers
Formulation: Articulation | Folio 2 / Folder 26, 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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II : 25–26 Here, more emphasis on “perceptual ambiguity,” as the psychologists call a spatial illusion with several reading possibilities. The two light gray shapes above and below the central...
II : 25–26
Here, more emphasis on “perceptual ambiguity,” as the psychologists call a spatial illusion with several reading possibilities. The two light gray shapes above and below the central zig-zag wall can be read either as receding — in which case there is an empty space between them and we look into it either up or down — or as ceiling or floor. More surprising is that the two heavier grays, which appear first as distant backgrounds, turn near the lower left and upper right corners, suddenly to become solid volumes. Such illusions are not possible in three-dimensional reality. They are a privilege of two-dimensional design.
(From notes for a slide lecture on Indicating Solids, 1948.)
Here, more emphasis on “perceptual ambiguity,” as the psychologists call a spatial illusion with several reading possibilities. The two light gray shapes above and below the central zig-zag wall can be read either as receding — in which case there is an empty space between them and we look into it either up or down — or as ceiling or floor. More surprising is that the two heavier grays, which appear first as distant backgrounds, turn near the lower left and upper right corners, suddenly to become solid volumes. Such illusions are not possible in three-dimensional reality. They are a privilege of two-dimensional design.
(From notes for a slide lecture on Indicating Solids, 1948.)
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