“Anni Albers revered experimentation. During her early days studying under Paul Klee at the Bauhaus school, in the 1920s, she set out to expand the scope of weaving by using new, daring methods and materials. ‘I heard [Klee] speak and he said take a line for a walk,’ she once recalled to Nicholas Fox Weber, director of the Josef and Anni Albers Foundation. ‘And I thought, I will take thread everywhere I can.’ In her textile practice, Albers ecstatically mingled organic and synthetic fibers; loom-weaving and hand-weaving; representation and abstraction; art and utility. The resulting lively, bristling compositions revolutionized weaving and helped shape the burgeoning traditions of abstraction. ...”
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