Un verde cobalto #192 para Josef Albers: el último “Homenaje”

espanolEl artista aleman Josef Albers (1888-1976) desarrollo un intenso trabajo docente. Empezo sus estudios en la Bauhaus en 1919, donde impartio clases hasta 1933. A partir de entonces, en paralelo a su propio trabajo creativo, fue profesor en Estados Unidos, primero en Black Mountain College y mas tarde en la Facultad de Bellas Artes de Yale. En este trabajo se analiza como su serie Homenaje al Cuadrado explora la interaccion del color como fundamento de la pintura, en torno a la cual se establece un entendimiento de la percepcion como origen del fenomeno artistico y de la pedagogia. Defendio que la educacion artistica debia formar parte de cualquier plan de estudios y desarrollo sus ideas en un considerable numero de escritos. El presente trabajo atraviesa su contexto vital, docente y creativo para analizar como el ultimo de sus Homenajes al Cuadrado condensa, de manera singular, las inquietudes de una aventura, universal e inspiradora para generaciones hasta hoy. La historia de la busqueda, en este ultimo cuadro, de un particular tono verde cobalto de Winsor&Newton ejemplifica la intensidad y precision de toda su investigacion. EnglishThe German artist Josef Albers (1888-1976) devoted most of his life to an intense teaching work. He was at the Bauhaus as student since 1919 and later began to teach there until 1933. Exiled to the United States, he taught mostly at Black Mountain College and the Yale Fine Arts School. In his series Homage to the Square explores the interaction of color as the basis of painting and he sets up perception as the origin of any artistic phenomena as well as in his teaching. He defended art education as a necessary cornerstone of any general education and developed this provocative idea in most of his numerous writings. The present paper goes through his life, teaching and creative context to analyze his last Homage to the Square. The painting is proposed here as the synthesis of his creative search which bloomed as the inspiration of generations until now. A very determined Winsor&Newton cobalt green pigment was the key for a singular vibration of the greenish tones of the painting, a fact which exemplifies all of his research.