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Josef Albers, Color Study for White Line Square
Oil on blotting paper with gouache, pencil and varnish

Josef Albers (1888–1976) is best known for his series of paintings, Homage to the Square, in which he endlessly explored color relationships within a similar format of concentric squares. Less well-known are the studies he made for these compositions. With approximately sixty oil sketches on paper, this exhibition will reveal a private side of Albers’s work. These sketches were never exhibited in the artist’s lifetime and have rarely been seen after his death.

On view will be early studies (1930s–early 1940s), studies for Albers’s Adobe series, inspired by Mexican architecture (1940s–early 1950s), and studies for Homage to the Square (1950s–1970s). These vibrant sketches provide insights into the artist’s working process and, in contrast with the austerity and strict geometry of the final paintings, are remarkable for their freedom and sensuality.

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Casa estudio de Luis Barragán en México D.F. (1947)
reportaje fotográfico de Aarón Ornelas

La casa Barragán tiene su propia web

Teaching materials 1920s
Conceived and commissioned by Maria Montessor, Wood, dimensions variable.

Manufactured by Baroni e Marangon, Gonzaga, Italy (est. 1911). Collection of Maurizio Marzadori, Bologna. Photo: Carlos da Silva

While studying for her medical degree at the Regia Università di Roma Sapienza–the first woman to qualify there–Montessori developed a particular interest in the creative potential of children with learning difficulties. From systematic analysis of these children’s play, she devised an activity-based teaching method that used material objects to stimulate their senses, and she believed that children should be allowed to explore these materials at their own pace. Montessori’s 1909 publication about her innovative methods developed an international following, which led to the establishment of schools based on her philosophies around the world.

These vintage Montessori materials are part of the exhibition Century of the Child, on display at MOMA Museum.

The wonders of Possibility, sci-fi anthology, under the supervision of Sergio Solmi and Carlo Fruttero, Einaudi Edition.

Margaret Lowenfeld (1890-1973)

Margaret Lowenfeld trained as a paediatrician. She pioneered child psychotherapy and play therapy, and invented several object-based techniques that became important for research and therapy between the 1940s and 1970s. These tools are still used.

Lowenfeld grew up in an affluent London family. She completed early medical training in 1914 and worked in a London hospital during the First World War. In 1918 she joined a medical mission to Poland which cared for civilians whose homes had been destroyed in the war. Meeting traumatised children shaped her career. Lowenfeld returned to England and opened a free walk-in centre for ‘difficult’ children in West Kensington, London, featuring toys and play areas. The centre trained child psychologists and expanded to become the Institute for Child Psychology. This small, independent research institute struggled successfully through the Great Depression and the Second World War. When the National Health Service was created in 1948, Lowenfeld’s institute became a non-profit corporation offering training and child psychotherapy services to local government health authorities. Lowenfeld died in 1973. Government funding was cut and the institute closed in 1977. Lowenfeld’s students and those inspired by her work continue to help children today.

Lowenfeld used miniature toys in sand and mosaics of coloured tiles when working with children. A trained therapist talked to a child about the design he or she was creating. Lowenfeld argued the therapist could enter the child’s non-verbal imaginative world. Such ideas were original and widely criticised. Some psychoanalysts had developed contrasting theories about children’s toys and fantasy worlds, but Lowenfeld downplayed similarities to psychoanalysis. She argued her techniques could be used by psychoanalysts and those who disagreed with psychoanalysis. Some anthropologists found Lowenfeld’s techniques useful in illuminating cross-cultural differences.

via: sciencemuseum

Jack Ryan. Moon/Color Spectrum, 2008
Archival digital print

More: Spectrum Study and Rainbow Moon

Jaq Chartier.Sun Test: Color Shifters
acrylic, stains and paint on wood panel

A stain is a discoloration that can be clearly distinguished from the surface, material, or medium it is found upon. Stains are caused by the chemical or physical interaction of two dissimilar materials. Stains are used intentionally in a variety of fields, including in research, technology, and art.

Artificially grown bismuth crystal illustrating the stair-step crystal structure, with a 1 cm cube of bismuth meta

Bismuth is a chemical element with symbol Bi and atomic number 83. Bismuth, a trivalent poor metal, chemically resembles arsenic and antimony. Bismuth has classically been considered to be the heaviest naturally occurring stable element, in terms of atomic mass. Recently, however, it has been found to be very slightly radioactive: its only primordial isotope bismuth-209 decays via alpha decay into thallium-205 with a half-life of more than a billion times the estimated age of the universe. Bismuth has unusually low toxicity for a heavy metal.

Elemental bismuth is one of very few substances of which the liquid phase is denser than its solid phase (water being the best-known example). Bismuth expands 3.32% on solidification; therefore, it was long an important component of low-melting typesetting alloys, where it compensated for the contraction of the other alloying components.
Though virtually unseen in nature, high-purity bismuth can form distinctive colorful hopper crystals.

Source: Wikipedia (via Freaky Fauna and David Benque)

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Rainbow Moon
Date: 7 Dec 1992
This false-color mosaic was constructed from a series of 53 images taken through three spectral filters by Galileo’s imaging system as the spacecraft flew over the northern regions of the Moon in 1989.

The part of the Moon visible from Earth is on the left side in this view. The color mosaic shows compositional variations in parts of the Moon’s northern hemisphere. Bright pinkish areas are highlands materials, such as those surrounding the oval lava-filled Crisium impact basin toward the bottom of the picture. Blue to orange shades indicate volcanic lava flows. To the left of Crisium, the dark blue Mare Tranquillitatis is richer in titanium than the green and orange maria above it. Thin mineral-rich soils associated with relatively recent impacts are represented by light blue colors; the youngest craters have prominent blue rays extending from them.

via: NASA

Les Anaglyphes Geometriques by Henry Vuibert

found: here

The evolution of Physics by Albert Einstein and Leopold Infeld
from Nasser M. Abbasi’s book list

Found: here

Gray Color Meditation

The Gray coded colors of disks differ by the same amount in precisely one channel. However, even at rather high resolution of those equal differences, it is still easy to recognize where different color channels are changed.

Contributed by: Michael Schreiber
via: Wolfram Demonstration Project

Geologic Map of the Shakespeare Quadrangle of Mercury

Publisher: U.S. Geological Survey
Scale: 1:5,000,000

GEOLOGY OF MERCURY
USGS, 1980—1990

These maps show Mercury’s western hemisphere; they are ordered roughly from north to south.
These files are meant for use in GIS programs; they can be downloaded here.

found: here

Vintage Printable – Color