JOSEF ALBERS STYLE OF WORKING

Josef Albers

    

Josef Albers is an American painter; born in the city of Germany, in Bottrop. He trained to become a teacher at Buren (a district of Paderborn in north Rhine_westphalia) in 1905-08, he taught for several years in a school. He believed that ‘teaching art is not a matter of imparting rules, styles, or techniques, but of leading students to a greater awareness of what they were seeing.’ He saw art work more as a visual of what others saw through their eyes, rather than what they were trying to explain thru the images. He cared more about the visual of the artwork.     

 Albers approach relied on direct observation and self-discovery. He absorbed in visual wonders, he would point out what others had perhaps viewed cursorily but not anticipated; the shape of the Yale football stadium, the spot of light that remains for a moment when a TV set is switched off, the way a red roof could merge with a blue sky etc. albers was, as his paintings and graphics reveal, deeply sensitive to the formal relationships of things, intensely conscious that everything in the visual field exists in context, and that every line and colour affects the next or adjoining line and colour.

  

While doing my inspired outcomes of Josef albers style, I thought more of how the colours blended together and the shades of colours he used on most of his art work, but a lot of his artwork involved bright bold colours so I mixed up and changed the shade of the colours so I could show I was inspired but wanted to make it a bit originally, so I mainly used darker shades of the colours that Josef also used to be able to link back to his work.

Some of my work is a very close match to his work, making it look like one his pieces, this is proving that I followed his style, but could have made more of an improvement to the outcomes to show more of a difference and originality. I could have done this by changing the scales of all the squares. Making bigger squares to show my own side of the artwork.