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the-goya-jerker · 23 hours

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Can we hear how you feel about Homage to the Square it's the painting that makes me feel SOME KINDA emotion

I do genuinely think Josef Albers "went off" with his Homage to the Square series.

Pictured below are four of the examples of these works:

As some of you can probably guess from my Goya Reviews, I have a personal fixation on goopy, melting, amorphous figures. But in this case I really enjoy the uniformity and the control.

Usually uniform, geometric, control is rather dull to me. But Albers brought it to an extreme with these paintings. Each had the same number of coats of primer, the same type of canvas, he even carefully controlled the lighting. That level of sheer control combines with the sharp edges of each square in a way that loops back around to being pretty erotic on it's own. I think heightened control or extreme loss of it both carry an erotic element.

I also think this pairs well with the rawness of how he painted these. They were painted on rough canvas, with a palette knife and unmixed paint directly from the tube. That's pretty rough and raw feeling, and it contrasts with the control behind them in a fascinating way.

I definitely also feel some kind of way about these paintings. The devotion to uniformity, to his process, to creating so many paintings that are so similar. Devotion definitely holds some romance and eroticism too, just look at our cultural fascination with courtly love!

Overall my favorite are the ones with warm tones, the ones with just yellow. But my absolute favorite is this one:

The high contrast just adds to the contrast that exists in how it was made. I love the warm glow of it that juxtaposes itself against the teal.

I'd give this one a 10/10 for jerking it to, personally. The collection as a whole also gets a 10/10.

Individually the lowest I'd give is a 6/10 to Homage to the Square: Ascending. It reminds me too much of a sunny side up egg in a pixel art game and it makes me giggle a little.

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nobrashfestivity · 6 months

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Josef Albers, Homage to the Square

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ortut · 8 months

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Josef Albers - Kaiserlich/Imperial (assemblage, glass), c. 1923

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germanpostwarmodern · 2 months

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Josef Albers, Ascension, 1972, Bochum, Ruhr-Universität (HGA Building).

#josef albers #1970s #abstract art #geometric abstraction #art history #op art

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topcat77 · 1 year

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Josef Albers

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science70 · 8 days

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Josef Albers, Mitered Squares – Fog, 1976.

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seymourpugh · 5 months

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Hi, I’m Seymour,

Thank you for sharing my post!

Can I ask you for one thing?

What do these 10 pictures I uploaded look like to you?

Please give me the title of the picture!

The metaphorical comments are also good!

Have a good day

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garadinervi · 1 month

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From: You can go anywhere – The Josef and Anni Albers Foundation at 50, Edited by Edouard Detaille and Willem van Roij, Designed by Graphic Thought Facility, The Josef and Anni Albers Foundation, Bethany, CT, 2022 [Yvon Lambert, Paris. Les presses du réel, Dijon. David Zwirner Books, New York, NY]

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appleflavoredkitkats · 9 months

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some art of professors (and just. artists) from the bauhaus inspired by their own works!!! i did this for a school project and am really proud of it <333

u can check the references on the bottom for their popular works!!

(rb's appreciated!!)

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pazzesco · 8 months

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Anni Albers - Variation on a Theme - 1958 - Abstract Textile Art

Anni Albers in her weaving studio at Black Mountain College in 1937.Credit…Helen M. Post, via Western Regional Archives, State Archives of North Carolina

LONDON — When Anni Albers was 91, she received an honorary doctorate from the Royal College of Art here in 1990. A ceremony was held nearby at The Royal Albert Hall, so solemn that a friend of hers joked that the venue deserved to be renamed “The ‘Royal Albers Hall.”

Ms. Albers attended the festivities in a wheelchair and accompanied by a nurse, but the textile artist stayed through the three-hour ceremony and collected her award for a lifetime of achievement.

As she was being wheeled out of the hall after the ceremony, Nicholas Fox Weber — the executive director of the Josef and Anni Albers Foundation in Bethany, Conn., and who recounted the episode — asked her how she felt.

“Those were the most boring three hours I ever spent,” came Ms. Albers’s deadpan reply.

“Anni shot straight about everything,” Mr. Weber said in an interview. “She was focused, independent — a brilliant artist and totally funny.”

Anni Albers - Red & Blue Layers

Anni Albers - South of the Border, woven cotton and wool, 1958.

Anni Albers - "Intersecting" - 1962

At the Bauhaus, where women’s choices for study were limited, the aspiring artist ended up in the weaving workshop. “I heard PAUL KLEE speak, and he said to take a line for a walk, and I thought, ‘I will take thread everywhere I can,’ ” she once told Nicholas Fox Weber, executive director of the Albers Foundation.

“She was very cerebral,” says Danilowitz, who knew the artist personally, “and weaving is very technical. It’s a lot like engineering, so it was a natural fit for her.” The Bilbao exhibition includes several of her black-and-white mathematical grid diagrams for weavings, including checkerboards in various scales and houndstooth-like patterns.

At the Bauhaus, Anni met and married fellow student JOSEF ALBERS, who would later become a celebrated color theorist and painter. His “Homage to the Square” paintings, which explored the relationships between colors, are now considered modernist masterpieces, and his 1963 book Interaction of Color is an essential text on color theory. After graduating in 1930, Anni and Josef both became teachers at the Bauhaus, but when the Nazis came to power, the school was shut down. In 1933, fleeing the Nazis, the couple emigrated to the U.S., where they both became teachers at Black Mountain College, in North Carolina.

Anni Albers - “Red Lines on Blue” - 1979, Rug designed for Modern Masters Tapestries

Anni Albers -Rug - 1959

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bauhaus-movement · 4 months

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Wishing you peace and blessings this Christmas. Merry everything and a happy always!

#peace #christmas #bauhaus #bauhaus movement #design #art #bauhaus masters #paul klee #chair #kandinsky #furniture #marianne brandt #wassily kandinsky #josef albers #anni albers #gropius

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nicoooooooon · 4 months

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Josef Albers’ Color Class, Summer 1944, Gelatin silver photograph by Josef Breitenbach

Josef Albers joined the Weimar Bauhaus as a student and later became a faculty member in 1922. When the Bauhaus moved to Dessau in 1925, he was promoted to professor. After the closure of the Bauhaus under Nazi pressure in 1933, Albers emigrated to the United States. He was appointed head of the painting program at the experimental liberal arts institution Black Mountain College in North Carolina, where he taught students such as Ruth Asawa and Robert Rauschenberg.

#art #color theory #josef albers #bottrop #photography #josef breitenbach #munich #germany #Black Mountain College #black mountain #north carolina #usa #ruth asawa #robert rauschenberg

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nobrashfestivity · 1 month

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