For the viewer, they might experience the transition to the brighter red differently. Different shades of red are used, with transparency effects, to create a brighter shade of red as perception is focused to the center of the painting. In Homage to the Square: Wet and Dry, different shades of red are explored. Some of Albers work is viewable on Bukowskis. His teachings on the perception and experience of color were the basis of a potential color wheel left to the intention of the creator. One of the interesting aspects of this painting is that all of these colors are closely related in how they translate into one another through the experience of the painting.įrom an artistic point of view, Josef Albers left an open book for the artist.

This painting shows four different squares: green, blue, gray, and yellow. In the publication Interaction of Color (1963) he describes ways to learn about color through experience by the method of trial and error. 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. Stare at the black dot on the left for 10 seconds, and then look at the black dot on the right. This means, specifically, seeing color action as well as feeling color relatedness.' Albers Assignment 1: One Color Appears as Two. 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. The diagram below is an example of one Albers color experiments to show the illusion of revered afterimaging, often called contrast reversal. 7 INTERACTION OF COLOR: An Abridged Version of the Josef Albers Color Course Dick Nelson, Teacher Course Description: 'The aim of such a study is to develop-through experience-by trial and error-an eye for color. 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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