Showing posts with label Josef Albers. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Josef Albers. Show all posts

Friday, 4 November 2011

Album Covers


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I like Josef Albers work the Interaction of Color, his book where he discusses how colors relate to one another, in it were some very good lessons of place colored shapes next to one another. He was apparently a very good teacher at Black Mountain College in North Carolina and his students became those that shaped American art for decades. In the 1960's he created album covers for Command Records. I remember these album covers, my mother had them.  To me they are still dynamic and provocative.

















Monday, 22 August 2011

Thursday, 11 August 2011

Aqua

Aqua is between blue and green, a mixture of green and blue. Farrow and Ball's Blue Ground, number 210











This color has caught my attention several times this past week. I was looking at colors to work with a deeper blue, more toward red. But this aqua kept catching my eye.  I saw it in fabrics and shimmering in wallpapers and looked at Josef Albers layers of colors. It was used much in the 60's and today a whole range of surfaces are using the mix of blue and green. It is cool, definitely, but how elegant.







Wednesday, 20 July 2011

Shady London


Green, dark, shady, leafy, this London summer the tree lined streets are like canopies, the layers of greens go from light to mid tone to dark, layers and layers of green:


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