![]() ![]() We could find many examples of this kind telling us how inadequate the language is for the expression of taste, only one example more: try to describe the taste of sweet or sour-impossible to find the right word.”įurthermore color is “the most relative medium in art” (from: Interaction of Color) depending on the light of the surrounding, on the form and quantity of the color, on the other colors, the background, on our own flexible way of looking. But the psychic reactions are still different. ![]() Only the pigment red, the color by itself, is able to get all the different imaginations into the same direction. Even when you explain this red more precisely through other words, dark, light, deep, flat, active, substantial, loose, dense, transparent, opaque-still we will have different reds in our minds. ![]() The interaction of these four greens creates tension and the unexpected sensation of different tastes, different beats. ![]() Between these yellow greens Albers placed two blue greens: a lighter grey blue green and a dark cobalt green. In the lecture Abstract Art (August 1935) Josef Albers says: “Take for instance the word red. The light green on the right has more yellow in it, as does the darker green on the left. Any form can be described, but trying to catch color in words is impossible. Even knowing that visual language is a totally different language than the language of words, each acting on its own level, color is still a very difficult subject to describe. In 1963, Albers published Interaction of Color, which is a record of an experiential way of studying and teaching color. ![]()
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