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Gr 3-6 Spare, engaging text paired with striking gouache illustrations make this book a perfect choice for aspiring young artists. Born in Germany in the late 19th century, Albers "watched his father paint doors as if they were artists' canvases." He came to America in 1933 to head the art department at an experimental college in North Carolina, but his numerous trips to Mexico were the true insp...Log In or Sign Up to Read More

Josef Albers's name may not be as familiar as Andy Warhol's, but he is well known to art students everywhere as the father of color theory, and just as pivotal to the course of modern art. This simply told biography covers Albers's formative years from his childhood in turn-of-the-century Germany to the 1975 publication of his book Interaction of Color...Log In or Sign Up to Read More

This simply told biography of the father of color theory covers Albers's formative years, from his childhood in turn-of-the-twentieth-century Germa...Log In or Sign Up to Read More

Natasha Wing took a special interest in writing An Eye for Color because its subject, Josef Albers, lived in her neighborhood when she was growing up. She traces his life chronologically, showing how he grew as an artist, from watching his father paint doors, to creating collages from items found in a dump, to studying optical illusions. Wing convincingly conveys the excitement Albers must have felt when he fel...Log In or Sign Up to Read More