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Unity in Kinship. Documenta uses three castles to signal three trends. Striking the keynote in the Fridericianum are the signal-flag squares of German-born Josef Albers, who lives and works in the U.S. They are accompanied by the shaped, geometric and op canvases of his many European and American...
In the case of New Orleans-bred Lillian Florsheim, ex-wife of the late Shoe Manufacturer Irving Florsheim, art appreciation has led herto both collecting and creating art herself. Her constructions are composed in the constructivist vernacular that she favors in her collection, which is rich in Vasarely, Albers, Calder...
His recognition by the international journal of graphic design, Graphis, as being in the tradition of Josef Albers and Paul Klee seems hardly to do justice to the originality of the work he is now doing here.
Nevertheless, Louis derw on contremporary painting for his vocabulary, if not his inspiration. His veil-like clouds of color come from Rothko, and the active Oscillation of spatial structure has precedence in Rothko and in "optical" art as early as Albers.
The "intellectual" tendency, the opaqueness of the paint, and the distillation of the language in Louis' paintings are carried even further in the last group of works, the "stripes." These paintings are composed of parallel, usually vertical, bars of dense, raw color side by side. The occasional overlapping and white...