Josef Albers Exhibit Response

Josef Albers, Mathematician, designer, photographer, typographer, print maker and poet, Albers is best known for his work with color theory. His theory on color is revolutionary. With a basis in how color reacts to one another and a strong basis on the over all composition. Most of his compositions are based upon the square. Albers theory allows his viewers to perceive color in a completely new way and to expand their minds on how they think of color. Albers believed that color is the most relative medium in art.

His theory was based upon how color can be deceiving once it is placed near other colors. Albers experimented with the chromatic interaction of color as well. Among his studies were three as two where he would take two colors and they appear as if they are three individual colors rather than two. He also used layering effects to make it seem like colors were laying over one another. He did this in a way that was so realistic it seemed as if there were very few color involved. One could say he was a master of color. For him to perceive color on the level he did and study it in the magnitude must be a master of color theory.

Albers original concept on the relationship of color and shapes is evident in this exhibit. Among my favorite pieces at the exhibit were portfolio1, folder 33 an image of receding rectangles was awesome. My overall favorite at the exhibit was portfolio 2, 32 and 2, 33 they are both very similar so it was hard to chose just one. In these images, he used variation shades of the same color giving the squares a sense of reseeding into space.