Homage to the Square: Apparition - Josef Albers
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Josef Albers' 'Homage to the Square: Apparition' is an abstract exploration of colour interaction, featuring nested squares in green, teal, grey, and yellow. This work exemplifies Albers' interest in how colours change depending on their context.
Josef Albers (1888-1976) was a German-born American artist and educator whose work, both in Europe and the United States, laid the foundations for some of the most influential art movements of the 20th century. Albers is perhaps best known for his series 'Homage to the Square', begun in 1950 and continued until his death. These works explore the interaction of colour through the application of oil paint to a square board. 'Homage to the Square: Apparition' features a series of nested squares, each a different colour, creating a sense of depth and visual vibration. The colours, ranging from green and teal to grey and yellow, are carefully chosen to interact with one another, creating subtle shifts in perception. Albers was interested in how colours change depending on their context, and this series is a systematic investigation of that phenomenon. The painting's flat composition and precise execution further enhance the optical effects, inviting viewers to consider the subjective nature of colour perception.
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Homage to the Square: Apparition - Josef Albers
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Josef Albers
He was born in 1888 in Bottrop, Westphalia, into a Roman Catholic craftsman's family. He worked as a schoolteacher for five years before deciding to study art, joining the Bauhaus as a student in 1920 and becoming a faculty member by 1922. He married Anni Fleischmann, a Bauhaus textile student, in 1925.
At Black Mountain, his students included Robert Rauschenberg, Cy Twombly, Ruth Asawa, and Ray Johnson. He left in 1950 to head the Department of Design at Yale, where he taught until retirement in 1958. The teaching produced Interaction of Color (1963), a text arguing that colour can only be understood in context, never in isolation. It remains a standard reference.
The Homage to the Square series occupied the rest of his life: nested squares of colour, painted obsessively, with every pigment and proportion meticulously recorded. The paintings look simple. The colour relationships within them are not. He died in 1976.
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