Albers’ Color Class

CAW Drawing + Painting faculty member Fritz Horstman guides students through exercises from Josef Albers’ book Interaction of Color using colors and materials from home.
This video is a recording of a live Zoom demonstration held on April 28, 2020. For more information on CAW's online offerings, visit creativeartsworkshop.org/creating-freely/

[@Austria88586]

Best demonstration of Albers' teaching on color interaction I've seen, thanks

[@rachanarahman9135]

Love this class. I hope there will be more class demonstrations.

[@priscillaknight4678]

I love this!! This is really neat! Please do more of these!

[@lindasteger7207]

Learnin 1:15 g to see is a stepping stone to learning to feel alive

[@bibianasuarez5159]

Nice to see you Fritz! Thanks for this video. I'm recommending it to my students.

[@sergiolago824]

“A dictionary of color combination” is a must

[@resilientfarmsanddesignstu1702]

Tip: The best way to get color chips is to go to the paint store and pick up their free color brochures and paper samples. Cut those up. The advantage is that the color code is given and can be recreated as paint or on the computer screen.

[@tiffanyomotunde1273]

This was very insightful.Thanks for sharing!

[@KeenyNewton]

6:36 difference between the “factual fact” and the “actual fact” .. so well demonstrated.

[@murlichandora7439]

Really enjoyed it....looking for more classes. Thanks for sharing.

[@mS-iz9np]

It is very amazing what you show us, thank you so much

[@cz2301]

One of the reasons why the neutral colors do better in this color interaction exercise is bc they are so complex that they tend to easily resonate with any other color, while a pure color retains its individuality and is less friendly in going with other colors. Great video, thanks a lot!

[@blackreazor]

That's not true at all. The reason they work is because of the way they interact with each other and with its license source which from they reflect from.

[@cz2301]

@@blackreazor thats what i said

[@blackreazor]

@@cz2301 not really you said they resonate with every other color. Which is also false. These colors will behave in a way that only either the opposites of the color it undertones making a triad of sorts. But it only works if you know what you are doing.

[@cz2301]

@@blackreazor they do interact with every other color and will resonate better with the ones they share hues, values, saturation and/or temperature. Bc neutral colors are admixtures of other colors, that’s why they resonate with the surroundings. Every color is always seen in relation to the others, not only to their complementaries. Ever read Alber’s “Color Interaction”? Or James Hornung’s “Color Workshop”?

[@blackreazor]

@@cz2301 I mix colors for a living broski

[@jjk2one]

The color next to it actually radiates to change the surrounding color.It's not just your perception.

[@user-wp7fm6ik6r]

Hey Fritz! I was looking up videos for a color theory class I'm teaching and came across this.

[@krushitashah4670]

it was helpfull thanku

[@swirlinember1974]

Hi I watched the first 14 minutes, all I can spare at the moment. Love the intro with some history and the examples of the color interactions. I am curious why you did not use the term color subtraction in the short talk. ? Did you use the term later in the video?

[@chilli_bean_23]

Why not actually watch it yourself instead?

[@lalapapa2439]

很不错

[@hanschristiansen1502]

Great and interesting video. Can you help tell me how to use neutral colors in my portrait? Has anyone got any books on neutral colours? Kind Regards HC

[@annethoday1469]

Colour interaction

[@stuartwray6175]

360p screen resolution. Such lack of definition/quality is highly inappropriate for this particular video.

[@chilli_bean_23]

I could see it perfectly and I learned a lot from it. This is a free class that was obviously made during Covid lockdown so perhaps it would be good not to be so critical about things that don’t actually matter?

[@dongdongyang7288]

he is teaching color, and he is using directional light source, that's not right

[@chilli_bean_23]

This is a free class that was obviously made during Covid lockdown so perhaps it would be good not to be so critical about things that don’t actually matter?

[@dongdongyang7288]

@@chilli_bean_23 I meant no harm, but a suggestion for him and a soft warning for his viewers , it’s a good class indeed

[@TN4theWIN]

Wish this hadn't been filmed with a potato

[@LaGrandeBayou]

“I’m not cutting my placemats” That’s a very anti-Josep Albers statement right there. Albers would have excoriated you for your unwillingness to deconstruct an item. In Combining...deconstruction is step #1.