I went to the David Zwirner gallery in London and saw a group of paintings by Josef Albers. At the time I had just discovered a love for abstract art and so seeing these paintings really inspired me. I found the compositions of his works especially interesting as he experimented with using all the same rectangular shapes, placing them slightly to the bottom of the canvas but each piece had a different lay out. He combined this with using a varied colour palette for each, exploring the visual results. This meant that the paintings were all very clearly linked yet quite different.
I originally came across Albers’ work through the Tate online and so when I saw them in person I was expecting to see flat paintings with print-like qualities but I was wrong. Instead I was able to see all the tiny, insignificant brush marks and the variations of thick paint and thin paint in different areas of the canvas, whether they were deliberate or not. His paintings were all very sharp and sleek which gave this kind of mechanical essence to them, as it doesn’t really look like a person could have painted such tight straight lines. There’s something about seeing an artist’s work as a collection, in person, it makes you realize the time and effort gone into the paintings, how incredible they are and the skill and mindset used to create them which isn’t something you understand through seeing them online.

https://www.davidzwirner.com/artists/josef-albers
https://www.davidzwirner.com/exhibitions/sunny-side