![]() This painting shows four different squares: green, blue, gray, and yellow. ![]() One of the paintings from this series, Homage to the Square: Apparition, is viewable online and physically at the Gugenheim. In this series of paintings, he explores the contrast of both colors and perceptions. One of Albers most striking works is Homage to the Square. In his teachings at Black Mountain College, which were later perfected at Yale, he showed that if you put a certain color next to another, and another color after that, you could expect certain results. However, after enough experimentation, an artist (or quilter for that matter), can learn to predict the behavior of color through experience. He characterized color as being passive, deceiving, and unstable. As a color theorist, Josef Albers made some assertions that color was best studied through experience.
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