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Josef Albers White Line Squares

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Josef Albers White Line Squares: A set of 6 lithographic inserts (measuring approx 7.25 x 7.25 inches each), published as part of the 1966 exhibition catalog: Josef Albers : White Line Squares - a touring exhibition organized by Los Angeles County Museum of Art in 1966. Looks fantastic framed as a set. Medium: Lithographic sheets in colors (set of 6 individual works). Overall dimensions including borders: 7.25 x 7.25 inches (applies to each individually). Very good overall vintage condition; some minor signs of aging to each; blue contains some staining on left edge and a white spec/printing loss on lower left corner. Unsigned from an edition of unknown. Works are unbound lithos that were included in the 1966 exhibition catalog & are not related to the (signed) larger Gemini G.E.L. edition(s). Well suited for matting & framing. In his “White Line Squares” series, Josef Albers experimented with the idea of how a simple white line can transform a viewer’s perception of its surrounding colors. Building upon his iconic “Homage to the Square” designs, Albers’s “White Line Squares” showcase four nested squares with a thin white line framing one of the squares. Josef Albers is best known for his seminal “Homage to the Square” series of the 1950s and '60s, which focused on the simplification of form and the interplay of shape and color. “Abstraction is real, probably more real than nature,” he once said. “I prefer to see with closed eyes.” His abstract canvases employed rigid geometric compositions in order to emphasize the optical effects set off by his chosen color palettes. Albers was highly influential as a teacher, first at the Bauhaus in Germany alongside Wassily Kandinsky and Paul Klee, and later with posts at Black Mountain College, Yale, and Harvard; he taught courses in design and color theory, and counted among his students such iconic artists as Eva Hesse, Cy Twombly, Richard Anuszkiewicz, and Robert Rauschenberg. He is often cited among the progenitors of Minimalist, Conceptual, and Op art. In 1950, at the age of 62, Albers began his signature series, the Homage to the Square. Over the next 26 years, until his death in 1976, he produced hundreds of variations on the basic compositional scheme of three or four squares set inside each other, with the squares slightly gravitating towards the bottom edge. Related Categories: Josef Albers Squares, Post-Modern Art, Wassily Kandinsky, Robert Rauschenberg.

Similar to:
Josef Albers (Artist)
Dimensions:
Height: 0.01 in (0.26 mm)Width: 7.25 in (18.42 cm)Depth: 7.25 in (18.42 cm)
Style:
Mid-Century Modern (In the Style Of)
Materials and Techniques:
Paper
Place of Origin:
North America
Period:
1960-1969
Date of Manufacture:
1966
Condition:
Wear consistent with age and use.
Seller Location:
Brooklyn, NY
Reference Number:
1stDibs: LU2462342683792

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