Study for Homage to the Square: Pale Autumn, 1963

 

Photograph by versluis. 

The following information is taken from the MCA Chicago didactic:

Josef Albers (American, b. Germany, 1888–1976)
Study for Homage to the Square: Pale Autumn, 1963

Oil on board. Collection Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Gift of Mr. Edward Weiss, 1974.13 

Albers was an influential teacher as well as artist, bringing ideas from the famous Bauhaus art school in Germany to the United States when he emigrated here in 1933. His theories on the perceptual effects of color were particularly important, and in works such as this he shows how a sense of spatial depth can be created through subtle changes within a single color range.