JOSEF ALBERS "CADMIUM ORANGE" SERIGRAPH, 1968 buy art toronto The complex background was created

The complex background was created by layering and washing contrasting berry red tones then over-layed with a dynamic platinum white paint that is draped with momentum around the page

The surface of the canvas is enveloped in tiny

Since the mid-1990s

The lavish lobby features 32 corinthian columns made with green syenite

He developed a unique visual language by combining abstract elements

JOSEF ALBERS "CADMIUM ORANGE" SERIGRAPH, 1968 buy art toronto The complex background was createdJosef Albers (1888 1976) is affiliated with numerous defining movements of 20th century art. Historians credit Albers with fusing elements of American and European abstraction while influencing minimalism, hard edge painting, and Op art. Albers was both a student and professor at the Bauhaus in Germany. After the prestigious academy was closed by the Nazis, Albers and his wife Anni (a fantastically talented textile artist in her own right) emigrated