Homage to the Square: Greene Myth

Josef Albers was influential as a teacher at the Bauhaus (1923–1933) and the avant-garde Black Mountain College in North Carolina (1933–1948) and as chairman at the Art School at Yale University (1950–1958). In his famous ongoing Homage to the Square series of paintings, drawings, and prints, the artist used the neutral shape of the square as a controlled structure through which he could explore the infinite variety of color. While the proportions of super-imposed squares of the series are constant, the different color combinations—meticulously recorded by Albers on the verso of his studies and paintings—create deceptive spatial illusions due to the constant interaction between color and square.