Josef Albers
Josef Albers
Josef Albers was a German-born American artist and educator whose work, both in Europe and in the United States, formed the basis of some of the most influential and far-reaching art education programs of the twentieth century...
NationalityGerman
ProfessionArtist
Date of Birth19 March 1888
CountryGermany
real abstract-art abstraction
Abstraction is real, probably more real than nature.
motivational art color
We never really perceive what color really is, as it physically is. This fact makes color the most relative medium in art.
heart painting curious
Simultaneous contrast is not just a curious optical phenomenon - it is the very heart of painting.
differences color cooking
Color is like cooking. The cook puts in more or less salt, that's the difference!
art differences invention
There is no difference between science and art when it comes to creativeness, productiveness, to come to conclusions and to formulations.
mean men thinking
To design is to plan and to organize, to order, to relate and to control. In short it embraces all means of opposing disorder and accident. Therefore it signifies a human need and qualifies man’s thinking and doing.
color names people
If one says 'Red' – the name of color – and there are fifty people listening, it can be expected that there will be fifty reds in their minds. And one can be sure that all these reds will be very different.
color perception illusion
Every perception of color is an illusion, we do not see colors as they really are. In our perception they alter one another.
art men thinking
I think art parallels life; it is not a report on nature or on intimate disclosure of inner secrets. Color, in my opinion, behaves like man -- in two distinct ways: first in self-realization and then in the realization of relationships with others.
art expression done
Art is revelation instead of information, expression instead of description, creation instead of imitation or repetition. Art is concerned with the HOW, not the WHAT; not with literal content, but with the performance of the factual content. The performance - how it is done - that is the content of art.
inspirational teacher educational
Good teaching is more a giving of right questions than a giving of right answers.
aim art consider method
I do not consider self-expression as important. It's not important as a method of teaching. And it's not important as an aim of any art branch.
creativity discovery opinion
In my basic courses I have always tried to develop discovery and invention which, in my opinion, are the criteria of creativeness.