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Is Albers' approach perhaps too basic? By favoring intellect over emotion, does he bring art too close to science? Yale's answer is no: Since the purpose of art teaching is chiefly to impart knowledge and skills, it should be as scientific in spirit as Albers makes his...
Put It in Writing. "I like to push a red," Albers explains, "so it will change its identity, becoming green or some other color." The reason he can do so is that the eye never sees colors quite as they are but always modified by surrounding colors. In Albers'...
Albers chose squares within squares as the composition for his color experiments because the square is "human," i.e., an intellectual construction which almost never occurs in nature. His monochromatic experiments in form require more complex shapes, but these, too, he keeps geometrical and tightly organized. "The measure of art," Albers...
Faith & Works. Born 68 years ago in the Ruhr Valley, Albers prepared slowly and thoroughly for his distinguished career. After studying and teaching in Berlin, Essen and Munich, he went back to art school at 32 in the Bauhaus, founded by Functional Architect Walter Gropius. At 35 he became a...
Germany lost Albers to America. At North Carolina's little (25 students) Black Mountain College, and later at Yale, he opened hundreds of students' eyes to art's basic elements.