My recent piece on tragedy and displacement in the work of Katsushika Hokusai, Constancio Bernardo, and Josef Albers on Broadcast by Pioneer Works. https://pioneerworks.org/broadcast/perpetual-motion-geronimo-cristobal
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The Ignorant Schulmeister and his Armchair Revolution
This essay is a preliminary examination of the artistic pedagogy of Josef Albers mainly using his encounter with Constancio Bernardo, his student at Yale School of Art in the 1950s, as a case study. After being mentored by Albers, Bernardo made the earliest examples of modern abstract painting in Southeast Asia. Drawing from Jacques Ranciere’s… Continue reading The Ignorant Schulmeister and his Armchair Revolution