{"id":3782,"date":"2011-08-05T11:15:16","date_gmt":"2011-08-05T11:15:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.iainclaridge.co.uk\/blog\/?p=3782"},"modified":"2019-12-17T11:56:31","modified_gmt":"2019-12-17T10:56:31","slug":"josef-albers-interaction-of-color","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.iainclaridge.co.uk\/blog\/3782","title":{"rendered":"Josef Albers: Interaction of Color"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img title=\"Josef Albers\" src=\"http:\/\/www.iainclaridge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/0511\/josef_albers.jpg\" alt=\"Josef Albers\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Josef Albers on Wikipedia\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Josef_Albers\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Josef Albers<\/a> was a German-born American artist, mathematician and educator, with a fascination for colour theory and squares. He also taught at the Bauhaus where he worked as a crafts master in the glass workshops.<\/p>\n<p>Mexican artist Gabriel Orozco had this to say about Albers&#8217;s famous book on colour thoery, <a title=\"Interaction of Color on Amazon\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/gp\/product\/B0016AK2NS\/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=iainclaridg0b-21&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1634&amp;creative=19450&amp;creativeASIN=B0016AK2NS\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Interaction of Color<\/a> (1963).<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;It is one of the most subtle books on colour that exists. It really affects the eye; there is something kinetic about it. Each page is beautiful, and the quality of the print and the paper is intense. It is perfect.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Copies of the Interaction of Color by Josef Albers are available <a title=\"Interaction of Color on Amazon\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/gp\/product\/B0016AK2NS\/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=iainclaridg0b-21&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1634&amp;creative=19450&amp;creativeASIN=B0016AK2NS\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a> on Amazon.<\/p>\n<p>Read on for more examples of Albers&#8217;s work.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><img title=\"Josef Albers\" src=\"http:\/\/www.iainclaridge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/0511\/josef_albers1.jpg\" alt=\"Josef Albers\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img title=\"Josef Albers\" src=\"http:\/\/www.iainclaridge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/0511\/josef_albers2.jpg\" alt=\"Josef Albers\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img title=\"Josef Albers\" src=\"http:\/\/www.iainclaridge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/0511\/josef_albers3.jpg\" alt=\"Josef Albers\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Josef Albers was a German-born American artist, mathematician and educator, with a fascination for colour theory and squares. He also taught at the Bauhaus where he worked as a crafts master in the glass workshops. Mexican artist Gabriel Orozco had this to say about Albers&#8217;s famous book on colour thoery, Interaction of Color (1963). &#8220;It [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7,23,2,6],"tags":[],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iainclaridge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3782"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iainclaridge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iainclaridge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iainclaridge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iainclaridge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3782"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.iainclaridge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3782\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48476,"href":"https:\/\/www.iainclaridge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3782\/revisions\/48476"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iainclaridge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iainclaridge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iainclaridge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}