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Jim Cogswell: Meanwhile
Colorful and exciting, Cogswell's work originates in the figure; by the time the piece is completed the figure has merged into an abstract design.
Mon, Oct 12th to Fri, Dec 11th, Library
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WCC Home: Resources: Other Resources: Gallery One, WCC's Art Gallery
Josef Albers: To Open Eyes, The Bauhaus, Black Mountain College and Yale
November 6 - December 21
GalleryOne celebrates the publication of this major book on Josef Albers with an exhibition dedicated to Albers's educational methodology and his philosophies on art and the nature of perception.
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Basic Design
Asked to teach traditional crafts methods and materials in the Bauhaus preliminary course, Albers instead handed his students cheap, commonplace materials, told them to work with simple tools or their fingers, and come up with something never-before-seen. His aim was to develop initiative and flexible thinking. Whatever the specific task or material, the lessons learned could be applied to any situation that demanded creative thinking.
Basic Drawing
Albers replaced the laborious techniques of the European academies that led to "making art" with an emphasis on drawing as "observation and articulation." Through simple line exercises, drawings of everyday objects, and quick, loose drawings of the model, he trained perception and hand-eye control, and handed his students an efficient visual language useful for any further work.
Color
Recognizing that the appearance of a color depends on its context, Albers jettisoned the theories, formulas, and recipes of traditional teaching in favor of empiracal investigation. His color course comprised experiments that examined how colors behave in specific contexts. In addition, students made "free studies," abstract collages that aimed to create "color" much as notes create music.
Painting
The basic painting course reflected Albers's idea that school was for study, not making art. In place of traditional curriculum of long-term oil paintings, students made a painting a day in watercolor. Using economical paint applications based on Cezanne's, they incorporated the ground into their paintings, literally painting the spaces between and behind objects they saw. This approach demanded that students weigh the effect of each stroke they painted, and consider the spaces along with the solids.
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