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LET'S TALK ANTIQUES Maxfield Parrish's work `too pretty to throw away'
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My grandmother had some things that she said were "too pretty to
throw away."
One was an old paper box for fancy chocolates. On the lid was a
picture of a scantily clad girl about to dive into a pool. Her
reflection mirrored everything in the top half of the illustration,
perfectly. The colors were amazing, and I remember thinking that is
was the most beautiful picture I had ever seen. Today I know that it
was a Maxfield Parrish illustration.
I first learned about Parrish in art appreciation class in
college. When I saw some of his paintings, I recognized his style and
colors. I also ...
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Josef Albers: To Open Eyes
Magazine article from: The Architects' Journal
; Josef Albers: To Open Eyes. The Bauhaus, Black...westwards from Europe to the United States. Josef Albers was one of this group, and the trajectory...Teaching design: A short history of Josef Albers'. On the armature that this establishes...
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Josef Albers and Yuko Shiraishi at Leonard Hutton.
Magazine article from: Art in America
; What is the legacy of Josef Albers? As a teacher at the Bauhaus...discovered a deep affinity for both Josef and Anni Albers's work. The Hutton exhibition...the dealer's collection of Josef Albers paintings. The result was this...
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Learning through color.(Josef Albers: To Open Eyes - The Bauhaus, Black Mountain College, and Yale; Color Chart: Reinventing Color, 1950 to Today; Colour)(Book review)
Magazine article from: Art in America
; Josef Albers: To Open Eyes; The Bauhaus, Black Mountain College, and Yale, by...directly in touch with modern life. A similar desire is recounted in Josef Albers: To Open Eyes. In this monumental monograph about Albers as a teacher...
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Josef Albers. (Guggenheim Museum, New York, New York)
Magazine article from: Artforum International
; Josef Albers' photographs and his early work with glass...painting. It was not only Germany that Albers left behind when he fled the Nazis and came...all three facets of his career, is why Albers felt compelled to limit his production in...
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Josef Albers - Formulation: Articulation
Magazine article from: The Architects' Journal
; Josef Albers - Formulation: Articulation Text by T G...suggests why this book is so desirable: 'Albers' images have been printed on 200 gsm Gardapat...capture the fine discriminations that were Albers' longtime concern. Unlike Le Corbusier...
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Josef Albers: To Open Eyes.(Young adult review)(Brief article)(Book review)
Magazine article from: Arts & Activities
; JOSEF ALBERS: To Open Eyes (2006; $75), by Frederick...descriptive materials are informative: "Josef Albers (1888--1976) has long been admired...life." It is interesting to note that Josef Albers began his teaching in an elementary school...
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The first couple of modern design; She worked in textiles, he in paint and glass, but Anni and Josef Albers shared a Bauhaus sensibility.(FEATURES)(ARTS)
Newspaper article from: The Christian Science Monitor
; ...products, design alchemists Josef and Anni Albers elevated the simplest materials...conversation between them. "Josef and Anni Albers: Designs for Living" is...exhibition curator and head of The Josef and Anni Albers Foundation. "This is the...
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ABSTRACT ARTIST JOSEF ALBERS TAKES A SQUARE LOOK AT COLOR
Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe
; Josef Albers practiced the science of art. One of the...and teachers of art in the 20th century, Albers was something of a perceptual psychologist...What do those pairings do to the viewer? Albers's greatest body of work, which he undertook...
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Josef Albers
Magazine article from: Artforum
; ...Jasper Johns once took a color test designed by Josef Albers and reported back: "Mr. Albers, I took your color test and got all the answers wrong." Albers beamed, "Dot's vunderful. You got 100 percent...
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Albers Mural Needs a Home.(MetLife Inc. plans uncertain for the Josef Albers work)(Brief Article)
Magazine article from: Art in America
; ...site-specific work by the German-born modernist Josef Albers has been removed from the lobby of New York's MetLife...critical to the work's impact. Before his death in 1976, Albers drew up exact specifications for the work. Thus, it...
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