Artist Study: Josef Albers

As we continued our study of color we looked at the art work of Josef Albers. There is a wonderful children's book called An Eye for Color about Albers. It not only gives a short bio of Albers life but also nicely explains color theory in a clear and concise fashion.

After reading the book we looked at how colors can appear different when juxtaposed against different colors. A good example of this is putting a red square on top of a white piece of paper and on top of an purple piece of paper.

After reading the book and playing around with layering different squares on top of each other, we made our own Josef Albers artwork by gluing squares together.

Materials: pre-cut construction paper squares of various colors, glue sticks, An Eye for Color book