JOSEF ALBERS - PORTRAITS

Josef Albers Dom (Cathedral), ca. 1930 - sandblasted flashed glass

Josef Albers Frontal, ca. 1927 - sandblasted flashed glass with black paint

Left: Sea (1933), Right: White Circle (1933)

"All Albers's teaching about colour was based on the premise of it's inherent instability, and hence it's unpredictability. His own work had led him to realise that theoretical, systematic and intellectually based attempts to organise and determine the use of colour were doomed to fail in practice."

Colour is a godly power beyond our capabilities.

Nature as a source of pattern.

The unseen nature as source of pattern.

How do you unlock the unseen nature without psychedelics?

"Art in it's very nature is new in formulation, articulation, through constant in it's task to reveal and to arouse emotion. All real art is or was modern in it's time, daring and new, demonstrating a constant change in seeing and feeling. If revival had been a perpetual virtue, we still would live in caves and earth pits. In art, tradition is to create, not to revive."

How can there be a 'modern' if there is no time?

How can anything be new if everything is a result of everything that

 came before / that comes to exist now?

However much you push the boat out there will always be a limit within human capabilities.

So the aim is to transcend humanity via a more intense progression into enlightenment.

BIG BOOK NEED REFERENCE.
Albers, J. (1930). Dom (Cathedral).
Albers, J. (1927). Frontal.
Albers, J. (1946). Present and / or Past, Volume 47, Issue 8, Columbus: Design.
Albers, J. (1933). Sea.
Albers, J. (1933). White Circle.