Instead of art, I have taught philosophy…I never have taught how to paint. A good teacher of children cannot merely provide all the answers, he or she must initiate the process of asking questions and seeking truth. Repetition and discipline are necessary for learning. Trained as a teacher, Albers taught German schoolchildren “everything-reading, writing and arithmetic” and it seems to me that, while his way of teaching university art students about color is highly advanced, it yet shows evidence of a certain “grammar school” pedagogy: Begin at the beginning. But, in it, there is a way to learn to see.” “In my color book there is no new theory of color. Although I use the word “theory” with caution as Albers always asserted that he had not built and was not presenting any new theory of color, only an approach to studying it. This slim volume does not belie the fact that the book contains a succinct, concise and, at times, downright poetic statement of color theory.
All the time, like women do, you see, life is interesting.” His work, particularly his Homage to the Square series, influenced Op-Art artists who furthered his explorations in human perception or “the discrepancy between physical fact and psychic effect.” He was the first living artist to have a solo show at The Metropolitan Museum of Art in NYC. However, outside of the design world, Albers is better known as an abstract painter. Originally published in 1963, Yale University Press published a lovely revised and expanded edition in 2006, which is 3.25 cm (1.25 in) taller and includes a number of additional color plates.ĭesigners tend to think of Josef Albers (1888–1976) only as a color theorist because Interaction of Color is a classic design school text. I’ve long thought of Josef Albers’s Interaction of Color as the one and only book you’ll ever need to understand how to use color as a designer.
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