Squared Away

I painted this piece earlier this year when I was in my oil painting mode.  The lady was a patron of The Tate Modern in London and intently studying the familiar work of Josef Albers.

"Squared Away"

10 x 10 Oil of canvas

$195

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Albers, born in 1888 in Germany, was an accomplished artist and thinker and highly regarded, but emigrated to the USA in 1933 with his wife Anni.   He headed up the Black Mountain College arts program in NC until 1950 before becoming a fellow at Yale. He died in 1972.

In 1963 he wrote a book called "The Interaction of Color" (old copies are highly prized) which presented his theory that colors were governed by an internal and deceptive logic.

Albers said "He who claims to see colors independent of their illusionary changes, fools only himself, and none else."

Apparently, in his lectures at Yale (and according to Newsweek), he quickly erased every iota of smugness concerning what you thought you knew about light intensity and brightness, transparency, or color temperature!  Wish I could have been there.  Color theory is a never-ending learning experience!

However........there is an iPad app available of his theory called Interaction of Color by Josef Albers, put out by Yale.  It is very cool!

Hope you see color in a whole new light!

All my best - Gillian

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