Anni Albers

" Today a thing is beautiful when its form is in agreement with its function, and when it has been made of well-chosen materials". Anni Albers.

My passion for touching tablecloths, for the structure of the fabrics, the colour, the prints brings me to Anni Albers and the experimental school of art and design Bauhaus. She is the most innovative and influential textile artist of the XX century that incorporated mass production to crafts.

Albers wanted to be a painter, sewing at first seemed very girly. But as a woman, she could only enter  weaving, pottering, or bookbinding classes at the Bauhaus School; She entered  the weaving workshop and was the first textile artist to hold an individual exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art in New York.

What I like about Albers and that can be applied to the philosophy of this blog is that art should be first but also useful.

Her passion for Mexico, Mae West, and Albers Quote of "I find that when work is made with thread, its considered crafts; when if it's on paper it's considered art" makes this imperative to travel to London to see her exhibition at the Tate Modern from 11th October  2018 to 27th  January 2019.