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Homage to the Square: Intrepid

Untitled (for Never Before, a,b,g,e) Josef Albers Date: ca. 1976 Medium:Graphite, ink and paint swatch Dimensions:Sheet: 11 1/16 × 8 7/16 in. (28.1 × 21.5 cm)

At Colour Studio, our job as architectural colorists is to please the eye, but visual perception of any one color is one of the hardest variables to control. Josef Albers, German-born American artist and professor, taught that all color is relative. His work explores the variances in color relationships and how subtle shifts in those relationships can have drastic results. Josef Albers "Homage to the Square" Albers stated that "... In visual perception a color is almost never seen as it…

Josef Albers, German/American 1888-1976, Homage to the Square (Blue with Black Square); Homage to the Square (Red with Teal Square); Homage to...

Never Before Prospectus Artist: Josef Albers (American (born Germany), Bottrop 1888–1976 New Haven, Connecticut) Publisher: Published by Tyler Graphics, Ltd. (American, Bedford, New York) Printer: Printed by Tyler Graphics, Ltd. (American, Bedford, New York) Date: 1976 Medium: Hand printed screen miniature Dimensions: image: 4 7/16 x 4 7/8 in. (11.3 x 12.4 cm) sheet: 7 11/16 x 8 1/16 in. (19.5 x 20.5 cm) Classification: Prints Credit Line: Gift of Tyler Graphics, Inc. 1976 Accession Number…

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Detail of Color Study for Homage to the Square I had always thought of Josef Albers as a rather cold and intellectual painter, whose grand project of Homages to the Square was rather dull and repetitive, and whose teaching foisted on art students the study of color using Color-aid papers. My thinking was turned about completely after seeing a splendid exhibition earlier this fall at the Morgan Library, Painting on Paper: Josef Albers in America. I just got the delicious (the color is a joy)…