Josef Albers
Color
Vocabulary
About the Author
Misc.
100

Where was Josef Albers born? 

Bottrop, Germany

100

Although he found simple beauty in America, where was it that Josef began to have colors capture his eye? 

Mexico 

100

Several different images combined together to create a new image

Collage 

100

How did Natasha Wing know Josef Albers? 

He was her neighbor

100

In 1971 Josef Albers was the first living artist to...

be the subject of a solo exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art

200

When was Josef Albers Born?

March 19, 1888

200

His first series of abstract paintings were different colored ______________________.

Rectangles 

200

A piece of cloth used by artists as a surface to paint on

Canvas

200

What did the author paint that Josef Albers thought was "good" .

A deer lying on the clearing by the woods. 

200

What is a dry, crushed substance, which when added to liquid makes colored paint? 

Pigment 

300

What was Josef's career in his early 20s? 

Primary School Teacher, Later Art Teacher 

300

When the colors were changed, the ___________ of the paintings were changed. 

mood 

300

Something that fools the eye by appearing to be different than it really is

Optical Illusion 

300

What did the author and her sister use to spell out "hi" for their neighbor, Josef Albers? 

Pinecones

300

The only colors you cannot make by mixing other colors are 

Red, Yellow and Blue- They are primary colors 

400

At what age did Josef enter the Bauhaus, a school of design in Germany? 

32

400

Josef picked the purest of colors? How did he do this? 

Paint was straight from the tube, no mixing

400

Brightness or Dullness of a color

Intensity 

400

How did the author know Josef Albers' Christmas Card was special? 

Her mother framed it

400

Orange, Green and Violet are each

Secondary Colors, made from mixing two primary colors 

500

What year did Josef start his study of color? 

1949 

He was 61 years old

500

With each painting, he proved that colors don't stand alone they ________________________

Interact! 

500

The ghost of an object a person stares at. It takes on the complementary color of the real object

Afterimage 

500
Where did the author see the paintings again as an adult? 

In art galleries 

500

Who was the illustrator of this book? 

Julia Breckenreid 

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