White Front / Josef Albers
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Record Details
- Accession Number
- 1958/2.72
- Title
- White Front
- Artist
- Josef Albers
- Artist Nationality
- American
- Artist Life Dates
- American, born Germany, 1888-1976
- Medium and Support
- oil on masonite
- Object Creation Date
- 1958
- Object Creation Place
- North and Central America (continent)
- United States (nation)
- Creation Place 1
- North and Central America (continent)
- Creation Place 2
- United States (nation)
- Credit Line
- Museum Purchase
- Style/Group/Movement
- minimalist
- Inscription
- "White Front"/Albers'58 ("White Front" is also underlined)
- Dimensions
- 61.6 cm x 70.17 cm x 3.18 cm (24 1/4 in. x 27 5/8 in. x 1 1/4 in.)
- Century
- 20th century
- Primary Object Classification
- Painting
- Primary Object Type
- abstract
- Secondary Object Classification
- Painting
- Physical Description
- A white rectangle stretches from near the left edge to the right edge. It has two small verticle ochre rectangles close to either end. Around the white rectangle are sections of yellow and ochre.
- Subject Matter
- One of the "Variants" that Albers began creating in the late forties. The "Variants" were visual experiements with the psychic effect of color. Albers applied paint directly from the tube.
- Primary Keywords
- abstract
- abstraction
- color-field
- geometric abstraction
- minimal
- op art
- rectangles
- rubenism
- squares
- Secondary Keywords
- visual arts
- artistic concepts
- associated concepts
- concepts in the arts
- european
- european styles and periods
- forms of expression
- genres
- geometric concepts
- geometric figures
- geometric shapes
- international post-1945 styles and movements
- mathematical concepts
- modern and contemporary art
- modern european fine arts styles and movements
- modern european styles and movements
- people and culture
- plane figures
- polygons
- post-1945 fine arts styles and movements
- quadrilaterals
- scientific concepts
- styles and periods
- styles and periods by region
- visual and tactile
- Rights
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Technical Details
- Collection
- University of Michigan Museum of Art
- Image Size
- 2878 x 2494
- File Size
- 212 KB
- Record
- 1958/2.72
- Link to this Item
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https://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/musart/x-1958-sl-2.72/1958_2.72.jpg
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"White Front; Josef Albers." In the digital collection University of Michigan Museum of Art. https://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/musart/x-1958-sl-2.72/1958_2.72.jpg. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed April 25, 2024.