Albers Exercise 6, 7 and 8. Due Wed. April 12th

Class, Because of time constraints, we are skipping exercise 5. For Wed, please do Exercises 6 and 7. Each exercise should be mounted to mat board with 2" border. 

DUE WED, APRIL 12th. 

Exercise 6

 consists of 4 different compositions. Each composition should measure 4" x 2.5" overall. NOTE:  FOR EXERCISE 6 ONLY, YOU MAY USE ILLUSTRATOR, OR ANY OTHER MEDIA, INSTEAD OF PAINT SWATCHES. Regardless of the medium you choose, you CAN NOT blend colors. They must all be solid and limited to 4 colors used across all 4 compositions

Ex. You could use the following paint swatches in 4 different compositions that communicate very differently: canary yellow, periwinkle blue, sun red, lemon. Each composition would use only these 4 colors, but in different quantities, in different placement, and interacting differently.

Exercise 7

THIS MUST BE DONE USING PAINT SWATCHES. Your composition must measure 3" high x 12" wide. Cutting clean and straight will be important. The goal is to use color repetition and proximity to create the illusion of more colors that you are using. YOU WILL ONLY USE THREE DIFFERENT COLORS of paint swatches. How many more colors can you create through Visual Mixture? Challenge yourself to make at least 6 colors appear.

Exercise 8

 Exercise is done with 3" squares and 1" squares. Should be mounted with 2" border. 

 Do your best with this one. You will need to pick three colors that give the illusion of 4 colors. The small 1" square is the color that will appear to shift into a 4th color depending on the ground (large square surrounding it). 

Do this exercise once with a shift in value (grayscale)  and another time with a shift in hue. 

Required Research: Interaction of Color historical background. Due Monday, April 10th.

Please watch the two videos on the Bauhaus and Black Mountain College and visit the website on Josef and Anni Albers.


https://safeshare.tv/x/ZWO0wx53r6E

https://safeshare.tv/x/G3xSAew7vEU

http://www.albersfoundation.org/artists/biographies/

Josef Albers- Interaction of Color: Exercises 2, 3 and 4. Due Monday, April 10th.

Project Overview

Using the color swatches you brought from the paint store, complete the following exercises. All exercises should be mounted to mat board with a 2" border. The color swatches can be glued directly onto mat board or first onto bristol board and then mounted to the mat board.

A new X-acto blade should be used.

Evaluation

You will be evaluated on two components
50% Craft- cutting, layout, gluing, presentation, following directions.
50% Demonstration of desired effects- Study should achieve the stated effects.

Due Date

All exercises must be mounted and ready for critique at start of class, Monday, April 10th. 

Notes

There are three basic attributes of color- Hue, Value, and Chroma. Identify how each of these exercises use the relationship between the attributes of colors to create the desired effects. Once you can identify the color relationships, you will be able to choose colors of your own to replicate the effects.

Here are more notes and examples for the Josef Albers Exercises 2.

Exercises 3 & 4

Notes: the larger squares are 2" x 2" and the smaller squares are 1" x 1". So, for exercise 3 you will need to cut two squares 2" x 2" and remove a 1" corner from each of these. In the empty space, place your 1" square of the appropriate color. The goal is to make the bottom right-hand color appear to be floating above the upper-left color. If this is done correctly, you will create an illusion of transparency and 3-dimensional space/depth.

Keep in mind the rendering device of atmospheric perspective- as objects move away from the viewer they decrease in both chroma and contrast. Therefore, a prismatic color may appear "closer" to the viewer while a chromatic gray may appear "more distant".