Interlinear K 50
Print
1962 (printed)
1962 (printed)
| Artist/Maker | |
| Place of origin |
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.
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.
Object details
| Category | |
| Object type | |
| Title | Interlinear K 50 (assigned by artist) |
| Materials and techniques | lithograph on paper |
| Brief description | Josef Albers: lithograph: Interlinear K 50 1962 |
| Physical description | Image of a geometric construction of interlocking planes, drawn in white on a black ground. The left and right margins are mottled where the ink has not been applied to total opacity. The space created is ambivalent. |
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| Styles | |
| Production type | Limited edition |
| Copy number | 10/20 |
| Marks and inscriptions | Albers 1962
Interlinear K 50 (signed and dated in pencil and inscribed with title and number. Blind stamped with the mark of the Tamarind Lithography Workshop and the printer, Irwin Hollander.) |
| Credit line | Given by the Josef Albers Foundation |
| Production | This print is one of a number prefixed 'Interlinear'. |
| Summary | 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. |
| Collection | |
| Accession number | E.48-1994 |
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| Record created | February 20, 2009 |
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