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But there was much more to him than that.

He saw painting as colour and got rid of design, layout and perspective, reducing it to a formula. Last week you said X, this week you said Y, and they seem to contradict each other,” to which Albers immediately replied: “Young lady, in that case you have a choice.” I remember one day a student in the class asked him: “Mr Albers, I am confused. What was clear was that he was the master and you were the student. He was a nice guy, but you couldn’t share a beer with him. No one would ever call him Joe it was always Mr Albers. For the viewer, they might experience the transition to the brighter red differently.I studied with Josef Albers at Yale. 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. 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.