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“It was my family that wanted me to be a teacher. That was safe, you see. To be a painter was terrible.”
Date Issued: 1980-09-12 Homage to the Square: Glow postage stamp by Josef Albers.
This stamp commemorated American education and the early establishment of the U.S. Department of Education. The design of this stamp is taken from a painting by Josef Albers, a German -born artist who contributed much to modern art through his investigation of color and light perception. Albers came to the United States in 1933 to teach at Black Mountain College in North Carolina. He later taught at Yale. The culmination of Albers’ artistic development is seen in his famous Homage to the Square series, on which he worked from 1949 until his death in 1976.
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by John Baldessari
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Robert Motherwell and the New York School
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“The problems of inventing a new language are staggering. But what else
can one do if one needs to express one’s feeling precisely?”
by Robert Motherwell
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Abstract Painting No. 5, 1962
Ad Reinhardt’s work became increasingly reductive and symmetrical in the
1950’s and from 1955 until his death he worked almost exclusively in
near-black. In fact the blue-black surface of ‘Abstract Painting
No. 5’ has an underlying grid of different coloured squares divided by a
green central horizontal band. Seen from top left, the squares are:
red, blue, red, red, blue, red. Each of these colours was mixed with
black oil paint to give a matt surface quality.
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“Humans have changed the landscape so much, but images of the sea could
be shared with primordial people. I just project my imagination on to
the viewer, even the first human being. I think first and then imagine
some scenes. Then I go out and look for them. Or I re-create these
images with my camera. I love photography because photography is the
most believable medium. Painting can lie, but photography never lies:
that is what people used to believe.”
by Hiroshi Sugimoto