Development in Rose II
Anni Albers
1952
- Medium
- Linen, warp-stripe, weft-bonded plain weave with open work and self-patterned by areas of discontinuous wefts, discontinuous single interlocking wefts, and gauze weave backed in areas with plain weave and/or main warp and ground weft floats
- Dimensions
- 62 × 45.2 cm (24 3/8 × 17 3/4 in.)
- Genre
- textile
- Museum
- Art Institute of Chicago
Styles
Tags
Modernismbauhausgauze weavelinen (material)fiber artTextileweavingplain weaving
About
Anni Albers was particularly interested in how a textile was visually defined by its technique and woven structure. In Development in Rose II, she incorporated discontinuous wefts- horizontal threads that do not travel across the entire width of the textile-punctuating the otherwise strict geometry of the piece. Knotting them in place, she added visual depth and texture.
