Homage to the Box Model

Hailey Polsky

The first Albers project I chose to recreate was called "Boundaries". The point of the experiment was to pick random colors, then match two of these random colors together to create a boundary line. Based on the colors, the boundary line could be hard, soft, or somewhere in the middle. Then you try to recreate the hardness or softness of that boundary line with all of the other colors. This was a pretty hard task and in the end I think I failed. It kind of ended up becoming a mind game and it was really hard to compare one boundary line to another when the all of the colors are completely different.

The second Albers project that I wanted to try is called "How Much to How Much". I wanted to do this one because I got to pick the ugliest color combination that I could think of. Obviously this is all relative, to someone else the colors I picked could look beautiful together. I chose purple and yellow because I occasionally see those two colors paired together (especially in relation to schools) and I just hate it so much!! I chose the ugliest yellow I could find, and the purple itself I don't find to be too bad but paired together they create my ugliest color combination. The Albers project then said to experiment with the proportions of each color.

For the experimental part of this project I actually decided to base mine off of the quote that Dr. Bradbury put at the top of the project page. The quote is “If one says 'Red' (the name of a color) and there are 50 people listening, it can be expected that there will be 50 reds in their minds. And one can be sure that all these reds will be very different.” Josef Albers: Interaction of Color. I wanted to put a bunch of different reds together on one page and compare them. While these are all considered to be red, these is such a wide variety of what red can mean, and people interpret the color red in their own unique way.