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Interlinear K 50
Albers, Josef, born 1888 - died 1976 - Enlarge image
Interlinear K 50
- Object:
Print
- Place of origin:
Los Angeles, USA (made)
- Date:
1962 (printed)
- Artist/Maker:
Albers, Josef, born 1888 - died 1976 (artist)
Hollander, Irwin, born 1927 (printer)
Tamarind Lithography Workshop (printer) - Materials and Techniques:
lithograph on paper
- Credit Line:
Given by the Josef Albers Foundation
- Museum number:
E.48-1994
- Gallery location:
Prints & Drawings Study Room, level E, case MP, shelf 290
Josef Albers became one of the most influential figures of the 20th century avant-garde, with his systematic presentation of spatial ambivalence and paradox, made through endless variations on geometric themes and juxtapositions of colour in the format of rectangle and square.
Throughout the 1940s Albers developed line-based structures into increasingly complex forms. Right-angles and parallel lines give way to converging or diverging lines and variable angles, and so spatial illusion also becomes more complex.
He continued this exploration throughout 1950s and early 1960s, when he also made prints from mechanically engraved plastic or metal and sometimes as blind relief intaglios. By using a mechanical means of engraving his intention was to make the line as impersonal and therefore, as purely functional, as possible.
