Albers Project Presentations
Between September 19th and 26th and October 3rd and 10th, participants of the Apotheke Painting Studio,
The Albers Project is mandatory for participants in the Apotheke Painting Studio Study Group. From March to June 2016, we worked on specific tasks that covered the content of the book by artist Professor J. Albers (The Interaction of Color, 2010). In weekly meetings, we carried out some exercises, and each participant developed a final project based on these studies, the latter aimed to develop each member's personal artistic research.
The Group studied the sequence of contents: values, intensity and luminosity, gradation, inverted backgrounds, transparency, addition and subtraction, axes which start from the book by J. Albers.
About the project themes: each participant was invited to think about and practice color studies in their creative process. The works were conditioned to a sequence that encompassed the final elaboration of a pictorial work (independent of the language – thinking of painting in an expanded field). To stimulate the beginning of the creative process, we went out to collect materials and plastic remains from the region's landscape, following the example of what the artist Professor J. Albers proposed as a work methodology, about learning to see, relating the perception of the eye to artistic creation.
Studies by the Apotheke Painting Studio based on the book 'The Interaction of Color':
Studies by the Apotheke Painting Studio based on the book 'The Interaction of Color':
Presentation of the book "The Interaction of Color"
Study of values
Color Study: Intensity + Luminosity
Pigment: Transparency, breakup of tones and values
Thinking about painting from Albers
Inverted Funds
Color mixing
Subtraction and addition of colors
Transparency and illusion of space - limits of color and plastic action
Albers Project Clinics
Ranges and color transformation
Intersection of colors and harmony/quantity
Encaustic based on Albers' studies
The presentation of projects was a mandatory condition for remaining in the Apotheke Painting Studio Study Group, as we set up a study group between practice and theory, linked to the University.