{"id":2882,"date":"2013-10-08T15:39:44","date_gmt":"2013-10-08T13:39:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/?p=2882"},"modified":"2020-01-30T18:29:22","modified_gmt":"2020-01-30T17:29:22","slug":"josef-albers-we-have-to-change-method-in-art-teaching","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/2013\/10\/08\/josef-albers-we-have-to-change-method-in-art-teaching\/","title":{"rendered":"When Josef Albers stated &#8220;we have to change method in art teaching&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery columns-3 is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\"><ul class=\"blocks-gallery-grid\"><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"645\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/CFA-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/albers_deniro.jpg\" alt=\"Josef Albers teaching Robert De Niro Sr. (father of the actor) Drawing Class at Black Mountain College, 1939\" data-id=\"2883\" class=\"wp-image-2883\"\/><\/figure><\/li><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1593\" height=\"1600\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/CFA-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/9.-Albers.jpg\" alt=\"Josef Albers, Tap Root (1965), \u00a92013 The Josef and Anni Albers Foundation\/Artists Rights Society New York\" data-id=\"2891\" class=\"wp-image-2891\"\/><\/figure><\/li><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1475\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/CFA-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/8.-Albers.jpg\" alt=\"Josef Albers, Stufen (Steps) (1931), \u00a92013 The Josef and Anni Albers Foundation\/Artists Rights Society New York\" data-id=\"2890\" class=\"wp-image-2890\"\/><\/figure><\/li><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"521\" height=\"739\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/CFA-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/7.-Albers.jpg\" alt=\"Josef Albers, Stadtlohn (1911), \u00a92013 The Josef and Anni Albers Foundation\/Artists Rights Society New York\" data-id=\"2889\" class=\"wp-image-2889\"\/><\/figure><\/li><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1410\" height=\"1103\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/CFA-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/6.-Albers.jpg\" alt=\"Josef Albers, Slanting Cross (1938), \u00a92013 The Josef and Anni Albers Foundation\/Artists Rights Society New York\" data-id=\"2888\" class=\"wp-image-2888\"\/><\/figure><\/li><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1217\" height=\"1600\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/CFA-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/5.-Albers.jpg\" alt=\"Josef Albers, Related I (Red), \u00a92013 The Josef and Anni Albers Foundation\/Artists Rights Society New York\" data-id=\"2887\" class=\"wp-image-2887\"\/><\/figure><\/li><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1219\" height=\"1600\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/CFA-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/4.-Albers.jpg\" alt=\"Josef Albers, Park (ca. 1924), \u00a92013 The Josef and Anni Albers Foundation\/Artists Rights Society New York\" data-id=\"2886\" class=\"wp-image-2886\"\/><\/figure><\/li><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1594\" height=\"1600\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/CFA-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/3.-Albers.jpg\" alt=\"Josef Albers, Homage to the Square (1976), \u00a92013 The Josef and Anni Albers Foundation\/Artists Rights Society New York\" data-id=\"2885\" class=\"wp-image-2885\"\/><\/figure><\/li><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1591\" height=\"1600\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/CFA-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/2.-Albers.jpg\" alt=\"Josef Albers, Homage to the Square (1967), \u00a92013 The Josef and Anni Albers Foundation\/Artists Rights Society New York\" data-id=\"2884\" class=\"wp-image-2884\"\/><\/figure><\/li><\/ul><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-style-default is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p><span style=\"font-size: 1.8rem; line-height: 3rem;\">\u201cScience and life are not always the best friends. They are sometimes competitors, even as are theory and practice. In school we can see this in teaching the science of nature. We as children had to learn natural history, which tried to classify or dissect the phenomena of nature. But soon we underwent<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>the experience that pressed herbariums are not nature at all and the herbalist is a dry man, like his specimens; or, that anatomy has to do mostly with dead bodies.<br>After this funeral experience with dried leaves and stuffed owls and squirrels, we felt a deep need of going out-of-doors to get, instead of the separated parts, the connection between them; instead of scientific systematizing, the events of life, the vital functions, the conditions essential to life \u2013<br>in short, to get life. Life is change \u2013 day and night, cold and warmth, sun and rain. It is more in-between the facts than the facts themselves. Rules are the result of experience and come later,<br>and discovering the rules is more life-full than their application. Linnaeus, the botanist, built his classifications after many experiences and much investigation. How could we have begun children\u2019s botanical studies with his final results!<br>I believe it is now time to make a similar change of method in our art teaching: that we move from looking at art as a part of historical science to an understanding of art as a part of life. Under the term \u2018art\u2019 I include all fields of artistic purposes \u2013 the fine arts and applied arts, also music, dramatics, dancing, the theatre, photography, movies, literature and so on\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(In \u00abProgressive education\u00bb, 1935, from a speech by Josef Albers at Black Mountain College. Courtesy <a href=\"http:\/\/www.silvanaeditoriale.it\/catalogo\/prodotto.asp?id=3391\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Silvana Editoriale, \u201cJosef Albers\u201d, 2011<\/a>).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Artist\u2019s works are now on show at Fondazione Stelline, Milan Italy, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stelline.it\/it\/la-fondazione\/home\/mostre\/mostre-in-corso\/josef-albers-spiritualita-e-rigore.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u201cJosef Albers. Sublime Optics\u201d<\/a>. Highly recommended.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cScience and life are not always the best friends. They are sometimes competitors, even as are theory and practice. 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