Study for Homage to the Square: Floating Aura

細節

Josef Albers (1888-1976)
Study for Homage to the Square: Floating Aura
signed with the artist's monogram and dated 'A67' (lower right); signed, titled and dated 'Study for homage to the Square: Floating Aura Albers 1967' and further annotated for colours (on the reverse)
oil on masonite
40 x 40in. (101.5 x 101.5cm.)
Painted in 1967

來源

Galerie Beyeler, Basel (7622).
Acquired from the above by the present owner circa 1980.

展覽

Basel, Galerie Beyeler, America America, October-December 1976, no. 3.

注意事項

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拍品專文

Albers said about his paintings "they are juxtaposed for various and changing visual effects. They are to challenge or to echo each other, to support or oppose one another. The contacts, respectively boundaries, between them may vary from soft to hard touches, may mean pull and push besides clashes, but also embracing, intersecting, penetrating.
Such color deceptions prove that we see colors almost never unrelated to each other and therefore unchanged; that color is changing continually: with changing light, with changing shape and placement, and with quantity which denotes either amount (a real extension) or number (recurrence). And just as influential are changes in perception depending on changes of mood and consequently of receptiveness."