Albers meticulously worked through his ideas in successive studies on paper. Josef Albers in America: Painting on Paper is an opportunity to see Albers’ process at work. The exhibition features ...

Not painting, but problem solving with pigment. Albers investigates, makes notations ... The wall text misleads: it reads, “oil on paper,” which suggests I am standing before an object. But the work ...

We all know Josef Albers for his austere formalist explorations into the relationships between concentric squares, such as those in his best-known series of paintings, “Homage to the Square.” ...

Albers’ lifelong exploration of how colors ... using everything from glass, to paint and paper, he demonstrated how colors interact and react to one another, as well as how they are influenced ...

Albers’ foray into album art came late in his life at ... a singing nightingale or blue jay,’ mused the artist in a 1935 paper on abstract art he presented at Asheville City Hall, North Carolina.

The obvious question in “Anni Albers: In Thread and On Paper,” a show at Austin’s Blanton Museum of Art which deals mainly with the back half of her career, is why? Physical frailty must ...

The examples are drawn principally from Albers’s collection of student responses to his classroom prompts: with colored paper, make one color look like ... Albers, who led the art school’s design ...

Anni Albers never wanted to be famous. To her, art was work. And her art—prolific in its range of textile design, works on paper, lectures, and writings created throughout the 20th century—was ...

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Those with synesthesia may experience sensory overload: Albers’s color studies, sixty of which are on view, combine a crystalline precision worthy of Bach with the improvisatory energy of free jazz.