Can This Be Considered Art?

[Ragidy_man]

Theses pieces are by an artist called Josef Albers. He studied at the bauhaus in dessu and later became a teacher there. He is most famous for his seris called homage to the square" ............ baisically squares in different colours. Can that really be considered art?

/discuss

Josef albers gallaries

[PREDATOR.]

Yeah its art... But different art.

[robgasm]

Im actually laughing at you. Of course it is, you just have no appreciation for art obviously.

[Ragidy_man]

must just be me then but i dont see how he can be reggarded a 'genius' or 'influental figure' for pieces like that

[Daemon_]

It is a bit simple, but it is still considered art, look closely theres a bit of texture there.

[unit_number_43]

It's because you're not educated in fine art, or I guess more correctly you're not empathetic.

I don't think he's revolutionary, there's been artists before that used similar techniques and emotions. A russian artist who's name I can't remember or pronounce comes to mind, but he worked largely with circles and violent emotions.

I don't think it's amazing, but it's deffinetly art.

[Adam]

Its art, but im not into crap like this. Its not anything award winning or skillfull.

[MartinBabies]

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Its art, but im not into crap like this. Its not anything award winning or skillfull.
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Art doesn&#39;t have to be skillful. Art is about emotions, so no technical skill is required actually. IMO very simple stuff can be more artistic then the huge portrait paintings by Da Vinci and people with similar style. But of course, Da Vinci WAS a genious, but that&#39;s not the point.

Edit: And btw, why didn&#39;t you pick some of his more interesting pieces?

http://www.albersfoundation.org/Albers.php...alleries&g=i440
http://www.albersfoundation.org/Albers.php...alleries&g=i360
http://www.albersfoundation.org/Albers.php...alleries&g=i090
http://www.albersfoundation.org/Albers.php...alleries&g=i300

I would fav all those four if I found them on DeviantART.

[Flip]

it is art but he is most known for he&#39;s color theory. we learned a lot about him in my color theory class this year. he shows the relationship of color and how they work with one other.

[carrotderek]

I like it :P It is indeed art, to its simplest form, but with many ideas : Minimalism