Josef albers color theory7/7/2023 We could find many examples of this kind telling us how inadequate the language is for the expression of taste, only one example more: try to describe the taste of sweet or sour-impossible to find the right word.”įurthermore color is “the most relative medium in art” (from: Interaction of Color) depending on the light of the surrounding, on the form and quantity of the color, on the other colors, the background, on our own flexible way of looking. On Albers’s intention with building not a theoretical treatise but a practical toolkit for understanding color: Albers was not interested in creating a treatise on color. But the psychic reactions are still different. Only the pigment red, the color by itself, is able to get all the different imaginations into the same direction. Even when you explain this red more precisely through other words, dark, light, deep, flat, active, substantial, loose, dense, transparent, opaque-still we will have different reds in our minds. In the lecture Abstract Art (August 1935) Josef Albers says: “Take for instance the word red. Any form can be described, but trying to catch color in words is impossible. Even knowing that visual language is a totally different language than the language of words, each acting on its own level, color is still a very difficult subject to describe.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |