![]() If you enjoyed this article you may find my online courses helpful in developing your understanding of visual language, perspective and different drawing techniques. ![]() In 2013 Yale developed an interactive iPad app to mark the 50th anniversary, which further fulfils Alber’s intent of the book being accessible and an on going enquiry. ![]() Since then it’s been printed numerous times worldwide. The Interaction of Colour was originally published in 1963, after 30 years of extensive teaching. Albers’ unique conception of art about technical aspects and a deferral of the artist’s ego helped overcome the expressive emphasis of Abstract Expressionism, an art movement popular in the late 1940s to early 1960s, shaped by artists such as Barnett Newman, Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko, Willem de Kooning and Louise Bourgeois. Like colour, his teachings assert that everything is relative, and this notion can be carried through into life. ![]() 3 (1928), translated by Frederick Amrine. Josef Albers, Teaching Form through Practice, Bauhaus vol. For the visual arts, this includes line, shape, color, composition, texture, and so on. The thought provoking exercises and mind-bending optical illusions were not only about colour, but about perception itself and how we experience the world around us. Formalism is the name given to a theory that locates the nature and purpose of art in its sensory, material properties or form. At the time of it’s publication The Interaction of Colour was seen as a groundbreaking text exploring art, psychology and science. A contemporary audience may already be aware of the interchangeability of colour, for instance you may of experienced the magic of Op-Art, a movement influenced by Alber’s work. ![]()
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