Description:
geometric image of squares set within squares; abstract
Label Text:
Josef Albers devoted his career as an artist and teacher to the study of visual perception. His Homage to the Square series, to which the Museum’s painting belongs, explores the way color is perceived by the viewer.
In his influential book on color theory, The Interaction of Color (1963), Albers wrote that “Color is almost never seen as it really is—as it physically is….Color deceives continually.” Each painting or print from the Homage to the Square series is based on the simple format of squares that appear to be overlaid. Colors interact and seem to recede or advance, playing out, as Albers called it, the “discrepancy between physical fact and psychic effect.”
The exact recipe of pigments (and their manufacturers) used in the Museum’s painting is inscribed on the verso of the canvas, where it is also noted that the colors were not mixed but were used directly from the tube.
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