It is the night sky seen from the ground though it isn’t the Twin Towers of course, construction of the WTC complex wouldn’t have even begun let alone be completed. Though O’Keeffe lived in the tallest residential building in the world at the time she painted this.
Actually living in New Mexico you probably could just go and see plenty of her works and places where she lived.
the idea was i’d switch from the halloween penguin to the christmas one on november 1st for the joke, but in practice i did the siwtch on discord then forgot all about it!!
Since the Krampus Helper outfit 47 got, I remembered a sticker of my Bearmon with reindeer antlers I got as gift at a party. He isn’t amused with those antlers.
Colour Theories/Colour Realities: The Homage To The Square Series
Perhaps one of the longest and most comprehensive investigation in to colour theory taken by an artist in the 20th century and perhaps the biggest one since Goethe’s own work into colour relations in the 19th century. Albers started Homage to the Square in 1946 and continued it all the way through his time at Yale (as chairman of its design department) until his death in the Seventies. This piece is a later piece as you can probably tell by the attributed date.
The entirety of the series is this, a series of squares usually in different colours of various shades and hue. Originally works in this series had only two squares matched to each other but Albers continuously added squares as he sought more and more to explore the upper limits of colour as well as prespective, space and shape. You can see through its Post-Constructivist cred, minimalist principles and simplicity that Albers was a member of Bauhaus indeed he taught there before the Nazis shuttered it and he fled for America under the protection of modernist architect Phillip Johnson.
His later works especially produce these sorts of fake three dimensional effects as Albers’ works with colour merged with his theory of “defamiliarisation”, a form of pedagogy he used with his students at Black Mountain College (which I will talk about one of these days I swear.) that sought to alter students’ perception of art by employing tactics like reducing painting to its base essentials (as seen here), painting with the non-dominant hand, investigating optical illusions (like this here, I swear I will also be talking about OpArt soon™) and utilisation of negative space.
This piece was donated to The Met after their retrospective on this and Variant/Abode series (an earlier series with the same principle but on a larger scale). Albers was the first living artist to receive this honour and the piece is still in its collection today.