Sunday Aritsts A Selbe 9.13.09 Josef Albers and Richard Carylon

Unknown, Painting, Joesph Albers

In my last meeting Tom asked me to have a look at Josef Albers, I had already seen his work but I looked at it again. I realized that i really can compare his images to the work i am trying to do now. Albers is best known for his color theory images likes the two above. They are formal and symmetrical. I didn't compare them to my know images until i realized that formal and symmetrical are two words that i wanted to use to describe my own work.

Albers was born in Germany, 1888 - 1976, and he attended Welmar Bauhaus until it was closed because of the Nazis. He then moved to America to Black Mountain COllege in North Carolina. He ran the Painting department there for a while and then ran the deisgn department at Yale.

Richard Carlyon, Unknown dates.

Richard Carlyon is an artist who some of the richmond galleries are doing a retrospective on this week. Like Josef Albers work, i would also describe this work as fomal and symmetrical. Carlyon really focused on the negative space created in his images. He also focused on "creating without predetermined thought." This is really inspiring it me, again, because of his formal uses and also his creation project. Sometimes i get stuck in my own work because i get to caught up planning the final image. Carylon's process really inspires me to work without concerning the final image because focusing on the end product too much is usually what gets me stuck.

I am suprised by the images i found this time around. At the beginning of this process i would not have compared these two artist to my work, but now i realized they are very simlar and inspiring to what it is that i want to create.