Nicholas Fox Weber's Blog, page 16
May 2, 2014
April 25, 2014
Josef Albers in Black and White (Seurat)
“Seurat worked without color for three entire years,” Leslie (Waddington) reminded me…
At the end of 1880, Seurat, age twenty-one, moved back to Paris after completing a year in a military academy…and worked exclusively at monochrome drawing with the goal of mastering it before attempting color. The first work he ever exhibited, in the Salon of 1883, was a portrait of Aman-Jean done in Conte crayon. Incredible! I never knew this before: that Seurat, that most extraordinary of colorists, had worked only in black and white, for two whole years once he had determined to be an artist, without enlarging his palette.
—Nicholas Fox Weber
Excerpt from Essay
Josef Albers in Black and White
Georges Seurat (1859-1891)
Aman-Jean, 1882-83
Conté crayon on paper
24½ x 18¾
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
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April 23, 2014
April 20, 2014
Rosa Mystica
The great Bauhaus-trained modernist Josef Albers was the quintessential craftsman, devoted to technical capability, rigorous in his standards concerning materials and the way one worked, but he also was profoundly interested in the other-worldly. For his was a deeply religious sensibility.
A reproduction of his Rosa Mystica, a stained-glass window Josef Albers created for the Catholic Church in his hometown in Germany and which was destroyed during World War II.
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April 19, 2014
Rogier van der Weyden – Descent from the Cross – 1435
— Nicholas Fox Weber
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April 14, 2014
Paul Klee: Making Visible at Tate Modern
When Anni Albers would reminisce about Paul Klee, the man who had been her ”god” at
the Bauhaus, she would, almost invariably, say to me that ”he was like St Christopher carrying
the weight of the world on his shoulders”.
Above: Paul Klee, Fugue in Red (1921), watercolour and graphite on
paper strips mounted on cardboard, 24.4 x 31.5cm
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April 12, 2014
Nicholas Fox Weber with Juan Navarro Baldeweg
Nicholas Fox Weber with architecture Juan Navarro Baldeweg at Josef Albers: Minimal Means, Maximum Effect
The first retrospective in Spain devoted to Josef Albers
The Fundación Juan March, Madrid
March 28 – July 6, 2014
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April 10, 2014
April 3, 2014
Nicholas Fox Weber with Juan Navarro Baldeweg at Josef Albers: Minimal Means, Maximum Effect
Nicholas Fox Weber with Juan Navarro Baldeweg at Josef Albers: Minimal Means, Maximum Effect
the first retrospective in Spain devoted to Josef Albers
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