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The life of an artist, says Robert De Niro, is "a very show-bizzy thing. You're up and you're down." The speaker is not the actor but his father, who studied with Hans Hofmann and Josef Albers and "flirted with abstract expressionism briefly in the 1940s...
For all those in Fine Arts 171 and anyone else who is attracted to "spots and dots" (as the 171'ers affectionately refer to modern art.) Graphics I at 168 Newbury has an exhibit of Josef Albers who is almost sure to pop up on the 171 syllabus soon. Albers...
Rauschenberg turned out to be one of the most successful artists Albers ever taught, but Albers loathed his work. "I don't want to know who did that," he would say as he entered the classroom, pointing at Rauschenberg's latest effort. Years later, when questioned about Rauschenberg, the old...
(4 of 10) rigorous thought. "Albers had a marvelous system," he recalls. "Facts plus intimidation. I felt crushed. I would have done anything to please him; that was where the pain lay. Albers disliked my work exceedingly. I felt I could never do anything worthwhile. I had no background and...
Yet one of the Bauhaus-type exercises Albers assigned to his students was the root of Rauschenberg's later practice: they had to find "interesting" discarded objects?anything from old tin cans to bicycle wheels to stones?and bring them into class as examples of accidental aesthetic form. Moreover, the...