Joseph Albers

Joseph Albers - Josef Albers - (born the March 19th 1888 with Bottrop (Germany) - dies the March 26th 1976 with New Haven) artist which taught with the Bauhaus, is also regarded as one of the initiators of the optical art, or COp Article.

He leaves the Germany in 1933 for the the United States. He teaches during fifteen years in Black Mountain College. In 1950, he becomes director of the Department off Design of the Université of Yale to New Haven.

Famous works

Homage to the public garden Series: Assertive (1958): the method of Albers consists in varying the colors in a scientific way around a geometrical model (here, a square).

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Renaud Camus:

Night sound , such is the subtitle of the one of most beautiful of the Homages, one of most radical at the same time and one of deepest, one of most lyric also, through refused lyricism, of any share compressed, pressurized and ready to burst: noise in the night, night rumor, noise of the night, the night like noise. The first term is in light contradiction with the second, chokes it a little, erases it for best the exalter. One thinks of these parts of piano of the old man Federico Mompou gathered under the more contradictory title still and almost aporetic of Musica callada, music quiet. Any painting is a keep silent word (and perhaps killed). That of Albers is quintessential, in this direction. It is a finger on the mouth.

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