![]() ![]() ![]() Albers spent many years of his life teaching, alongside his work as an artist. It was a similar approach to that of other great colourists: Georges Seurat restricted his palette to monochrome for two or three years in the 1880s and Henri Matisse focused on using black around 1918. Albers’ self-imposed restriction to monochrome allowed him to approach the full spectrum with remarkable confidence. Albers was one of the first modern artists to explore the psychological effects of colour and space, and to question the nature of perception. Although Albers disavowed style category labels, he is credited with influencing the movements of Geometric Abstraction and Minimalism. Josef Albers interaction of colour would go on to influence Robert Rauschenberg, Cy Twombly and Kenneth Noland. ![]()
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