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I read Josef Albers' Interaction of Color years ago and I've also bought the iPad app. I've been disappointed by both. The problem is that "experiential" teaching without any scientific explanation is inadequate and misleading. Teaching part is where you explain the students - why . It is perhaps the approach in art colleges where rigorous science doesn't matter. The problem stems when Josef Albers made scientific cl…
You’re approaching the book the wrong way. The original came with a big pile of colored papers. You are supposed to spend dozens of hours over the course of months doing careful visual study of various arrangements of them. If you don’t do the exercises in the book you’re not going to get much out of it. Albers is not dogmatic. His purpose is not to prescribe a particular style or method. This is not a recipe book. H…
Color is relative. Got it. What else does it offer?
>> The book is not supposed to be about “scientific progress”. It’s supposed to be a pedagogical tool aimed at artists. If you want a technical explanation, you are looking at the wrong book.
I understand and I wish that was the case! However, the popularity of it and its fame as a text book (see Amazon reviews) combined with his claims of explaining how brain perceives color - indicates that it is used as THE color theory reference. I have a problem with that.