I bought this framed poster for $2 at the annual book sale at the Occidental College library. Homage to the Square - a project using squares - Duration: 4:05. I will admit that I had never heard of Josef Albers until my friend Morgan Satterfield over at The Brick House scored a numbered Josef Albers lithograph for $4.99 at a Goodwill shop. It’s the last reference that caught our eye: Staton enlisted a quilter friend to create a wall hanging modeled after one of Josef Albers’s most famous Homage to the Square paintings. His series Homage to the Square is comprised of hundreds of paintings and prints. © The Josef and Anni Albers Foundation / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York Albers began making his Homage to the Square painting series around 1951. édition limitée à 150 exemplaires, chaque pièce est … “Abstraction is real, probably more real than nature,” he once said. Would Albers himself approve? Study for Homage to the Square: Beaming was made while Albers was living in New Haven, Connecticut, his home from 1950 until his death. Étudiant du coloriste Johannes Itten, Albers reprend ses cours à l’École Bauhaus en 1923 qu’il partage avec László Moholy-Nagy. Josef Albers: Homage to the Square 1st Edition by Edgardo Ganado Kim (Author), Juan Palomar Verea (Author), Nicholas Fox Weber (Editor), › & 4.0 out of 5 stars 1 rating. Josef Albers (1888-1976) Homage to the Square: Veiled signed with the artist's monogram and dated 'A 61' (lower right); signed, titled and dated '"Homage to the Square: "Veiled"" Albers 1961' (on the reverse) oil on masonite 48 x 48 in. Josef Albers, Homage to the Square--Insert, 1959, oil on masonite, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of S.C. Johnson & Son, Inc., 1969.47.51 . The viewer is meant to perceive shifting depth and changes of tone at the outer and inner perimeters of these nesting squares, even though the areas are printed in solid, unmodulated color. Why is ISBN important? They use a stereotyped composition to explore the subtleties of chromatic interaction. Josef Albers; Homage to the Square, 1961; 51 x 51 cm. Each work in the series is designed to demonstrate the complex perceptual effects produced by the interaction of different colors. These strictly ordered compositions were merely means to an end. (20.1 x 20.1 in.) Prix : Prix sur demande. He favored a very disciplined approach to composition, especially in the hundreds of paintings and prints that make up the series, Homage to the Square. This bar-code number lets you verify that you're getting exactly the right version or edition of a book. Joseph Albers was an important painter and color theorist. close. Accomplished as a designer, photographer, typographer, printmaker, and poet, Albers is best remembered for his work as an abstract painter and theorist. The 13-digit and 10-digit formats both work. Executed in 1957. Josef Albers, né le 19 mars 1888 à Bottrop en Allemagne et mort le 25 mars 1976 à New Haven aux États-Unis, est un peintre et enseignant de l'art. Painted in 1961. Josef Albers, Homage to the Square: “Ascending,” 1953, oil on composition board, 110.5 × 110.5 cm (Whitney Museum of American Art) Though Albers began work on the Homage paintings in 1950, he was introduced to color theory very early in his career, when he enrolled as a student at the Bauhaus in 1920. 2:42 . (50.8 x 50.8cm.) Josef Albers Homage to the Square: Embedded, 1963 oil on masonite 48 × 48 in. Private Collection, Paris (acquired from the above in 2004). Josef Albers, peintre américain d’origine allemande du 20e siècle, est l’auteur d’une série très célèbre intitulée «Homage to the Square» et pour laquelle il a largement utilisé les couleurs à l’huile extra-fines Winsor & Newton. JOSEF ALBERS (1888-1976) Homage to the Square incised with the artist's initials and dated 'A57' (lower right) oil on masonite 20 x 20in. Albers developed four related layouts, three of them composed of three squares each, and the fourth composed of four squares. Josef Albers is best known for his seminal “Homage to the Square” series of the 1950s and '60s, which focused on the simplification of form and the interplay of shape and color. ISBN. Editions en collaboration avec la fondation Joseph et Anni Albers. Josef Albers is best known for his seminal “Homage to the Square” series of the 1950s and '60s, which focused on the simplification of form and the interplay of shape and color. Tapis Homage to the Square Christopher Farr Josef Albers, peintre, enseignant et théoricien d'art était une figure majeure du Bauhaus où il avait le statut de Maître. I liked the colors and the motto. signed with the artist's monogram and dated "A 55" lower right; further signed, titled and dated "Homage to the Square: "Silent Gray" Albers 1955" on the reverse oil on Masonite 32 x 32 in. As its title indicates, the painting is a study for one of Albers’s Homage to the Square series of paintings, which he began c.1949–50. Michael Murawski discusses Josef Albers's Homage to the Square: Aurora (1951-55), part of the Kemper Art Museum's permanent collection. Albers painted his Homages to the Square works daily as a kind of meditative exercise, continuously pursuing his investigations into color theory and perception with subtly different means until the end of his life. Il est considéré comme un des initiateurs de l'art optique, ou Op art, et son Interaction des couleurs, comme un classique de l'enseignement des arts visuels. L’ouvrage met également en lumière les expériences de Josef avec la couleur et ses effets optiques préfigurant le courant du Op Art et notamment sa fascinante série Homages to the Square, ainsi que d’autres travaux moins connus tels que ses vitraux, ses collages, ses meubles et ses œuvres graphiques pour des couvertures d’albums. The Josef and Anni Albers Foundation. Homage to the Square is a collection of explorations in color and spatial relationships in which Albers limited himself to square formats, solid colors and precise geometry, yet was able to achieve a seemingly endless range of visual effects. (30.5 × 30.5 cm) 1976.1.1301 Josef Albers Homage to the Square: Advancing Spring, 1952 oil on masonite 16 × 16 in. The works here mark one of the first occasions he explored this imagery in print. “I prefer to see with closed eyes.” (81.3 x 81.3 cm.) Provenance The Estate of Josef Albers. A la fermeture du Bauhaus en 1933, il s'installe avec son épouse, l'artiste Anni Albers, aux Etats-Unis où il poursuivra sa carrière d'enseignant, à Yale notamment, tout en menant un travail artistique personnel. Homage to the Square: Silent Gray. So perhaps the optimistic, expanding and disciplined geometry of Josep Albers‘ Homage to the Square: Glow is an appropriate launching symbol for a department that seeks to influence minds and that has escaped attempts on its life. Josef Albers est un artiste américano-allemand connu pour ses célèbres peintures carrées colorées, notamment la série Homage to the Square qu’il commence en 1950, et ses contributions à la théorie de la couleur. (122 × 122 cm) 1976.1.909 Josef Albers Homage to the Square, 1950–1954 oil on masonite 12 × 12 in. Oct 24, 2013 - Homage to the Square, Josef Albers (Germany, active Munich, and United States, 1933-1976, 1888-1976), United States, 1951-1955, Paintings, Oil on masonite. ISBN-13: 978-8492480388. “Abstraction is real, probably more real than nature,” he once said. Apr 9, 2013 - Explore Yasuyoshi Tokida's board "Josef Albers - Homage to the Square", followed by 1081 people on Pinterest. Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum 40,600 views. (121.9 x 121.9 cm.) The Homage to the Square series of paintings was started in 1949 and over his life, Albers painted hundreds of these rigorous chromatic interactions with flat colored squares arranged concentrically. ... Josef Albers's Homage to the Square: Aurora - Duration: 2:42. Anon. Waddington Galleries, London. Artiste : Josef Albers (américain/allemand, 1888 - 1976) Titre : Homage to the Square, 1961 Support : Peintures, Oil on aluminum Taille : 51 x 51 cm. Josef Albers began his Homage to the Square series in the summer of 1949, and made more than a thousand related paintings (ranging in size from 12- to 48-inch squares) over the next twenty-five years. (20.1 x 20.1 in.) Homage to the Square: Diffused is one of hundreds of concentric-square paintings the artist made between 1949 and 1976. Find more prominent pieces of abstract at Wikiart.org – best visual art database. The series, titled Homage to the Square is based on a compositional scheme of squares in different colors and arrangements. « Homage to the square » constitue le troisième volet de cette série consacrée au Pompidou mobile. Biographie. For inspiration, Staton looked to everything from Shaker design to Paris pied-à-terres and landmark abstract art. Voir à l'échelle. In Josef Albers. The arrangement of these squares is carefully calculated so that the colour of each square optically alters the sizes, hues, and… Le tapis, Homage to the Square est l'adaptation d'une huile sur isorel de 1951 fidèlement restituée avec des fils de laine teintés à la main par Christopher Farr. ‘Homage to the Square: Broad Call’ was created in 1967 by Josef Albers in Abstract Art style. See more ideas about josef albers, joseph albers, color theory. A partir de 1950 et jusqu’à sa mort en 1976, Josef Albers entreprend un édifiant travail ;; Josef Albers enseigna au Bauhaus d' octobre 1923 à avril 1933. In his series titled, Homage to the Square, he produced an extensive body of variations on a highly focused theme. His best-known series of paintings, Homage to the Square (begun in 1950 and continued until his death), restricts its repertory of forms to coloured squares superimposed onto each other. Homage to the Square: Dedicated, 1955 oil on Masonite support: 43 x 43 inches (109.22 x 109.22 cm); framed: 43 5/8 x 43 5/8 x 1 1/4 inches (110.81 x 110.81 x 3.18 cm) Zoom; Download; A mathematical formula seems an odd starting point for an artist, but this is the way Josef Albers began more than one thousand panels he called Homage to the Square. Homage to the Square. “I prefer to see with closed eyes.” Josef Albers Homage to the Square: Silent Hall 1961 Not on view In 1950, while teaching fine arts at Yale University, the German-born Albers began his most extensive and well-known series, Homage to the Square—a rigorously formulaic project comprising more than one hundred paintings and prints and developed over twenty-five years. Study for Homage to the Square: Beaming (1963) belongs to a large series of over 2,000 square paintings and prints that Josef Albers produced from 1949 and until he died in 1976. 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