Interaction of Color: 50th Anniversary Edition

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Several studies by prominent artists and authors, including Albers, William Bailey, Robert Engman, Janet Fish, Jay Maisel, and Mark Strand. Through the self-imposed restriction of the square and his methodical articulation of color, Albers’s work moves against acknowledging the personal, expressive hand of the artist.

In his square paintings, elements of the composition looked like they were moving forward toward us or receding into the background. Kısa gibi gözükse de detaylı inceleme gerektiren örnekleriyle adeta bir deneyim yaratan kitap, özellikle renk kullanımı içeren tasarım süreçlerinde defalarca ele alınacak kaynaklardan biri. Now on the cusp of its 60 th anniversary, “Interaction of Color” ranks high among the Press’s all-time bestsellers — fifth among the current top 10, with well over half a million copies sold to date. The measure of art, the ratio of effort to effect, the aim of art revelation and evocation of vision. A major source of inspiration for Albers’s treatment of color as subjective phenomena was Goethe’s 1810 Farbenlehre (Study of color), adapted at the Bauhaus (where Albers was both a student and a teacher) through Johannes Itten’s own teaching and experiments with color.That set him apart from his critics who primarily saw a threat in the consistent analysis or simply deny its revolutionary potential alone for the quite practical work that is art. After his education he worked as a teacher, before visits to museums inspired him to explore modern painting. As a result, I have come to recognize the power of group effort to work through problems of perception. in oral history interview with Josef Albers] – "I made true the first English sentence [Albers came from Germany] that I uttered (better stuttered) on our arrival at Black Mountain College in November 1933.

Najhutnejšia a pre mňa i najpodnetnejšia kniha o téme, ktorú ťažko zachytiť slovami, keďže sa venuje tomu najrelatívnejšieho zrakového vnemu- farbe. Albers was also a college professor whose teachings live on through his 1963 book titled Interaction of Color. And, as “Interaction of Color” proves, it’s always possible that one of the latter, through time, circumstance, or merit, will emerge among the former. Once those qualities that had been considered certainties start to crumble, then all the others fall apart like a house of cards: geometry, hence form, and several others going forward from here. Albers is considered to be one of the most influential teachers of visual art in the twentieth century.

In an age in which increased human sensibility has become such an obvious need in all areas of human involvement, color sensitivity and awareness can constitute a major weapon against forces of insensitivity and brutalization. Without a doubt, Interaction of Color is still an incredibly influential book when teaching color to students. Its mesmerizing illustrations are a revelation for anyone interested in color theory and human perception.