Bauhaus · 1888–1976 · German-American
Josef Albers
Albers spent decades showing that a color changes with its neighbours; his book Interaction of Color (1963) is still taught in art schools. The Homage to the Square series, begun in 1950, nests three or four squares of flat color to test exactly that.
Across 4 works, the colors are mostly yellow (62%), blue (20%) and brown (10%). On average the canvases are light, vivid and warm. Signature colors, used far more here than across the collection: pale golden yellow, dark muted azure teal, lime green, muted azure teal and scarlet orange.
Color print
The swatches covering most of these canvases, averaged over every work, dark to light.
- MG 040 pale golden yellow 48.9% of canvas
- MG 084 dark muted azure teal 13.8% of canvas
- MG 173 putty 8.6% of canvas
- MG 039 gold 5.1% of canvas
- MG 038 light gold 5.1% of canvas
- MG 082 muted azure teal 3.9% of canvas
- MG 083 muted teal 3.1% of canvas
- MG 065 lime green 3.0% of canvas
- MG 036 pale gold 3.0% of canvas
- MG 026 scarlet orange 2.8% of canvas
- MG 033 light amber 2.6% of canvas