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Print
Day and Night VIII
Josef Albers, 1888 - 1976
Albers, Josef
United States
1888 - 1976
Male
18 7/8 x 20 7/16 in. (47.9 x 51.9 cm)
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Printer's ink
Printer's ink
1963
1963
1963
1900-2000, 20th century, Charles Rand Penney Collection, lithographs, square
Print
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1975.151
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Memorial Art Gallery
9/8/1999
75.151 SL1
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1/23/2002
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Painting
Homage to the Square: Soft Resonance
Josef Albers, 1888 - 1976
Albers, Josef
United States
1888 - 1976
Male
48 x 48 in. (121.9 x 121.9 cm)
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Oil
Oil
1962
1962
1962
1900-2000, 20th century, Modernism, paintings, square, yellow
Painting
Have you ever had the experience of picking out an article of clothing in a store and bringing it home, only to find out that it wasn’t the color you thought it was? This is often the result of the effect of different kinds of lighting on our perception of color. Josef Albers spent thirty years studying how our sense of color is influenced and sometimes tricked. As Albers said in his book, Interaction of Color, “color deceives continually.” His Homage to the Square series is an elegant exploration of the way people perceive colors differently depending on the colors nearby.
If the same yellow square in the center of this painting were surrounded by a dark red color, do you think the yellow square would appear lighter or darker than it does in this painting?
[Summer 2015]
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1967.27
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Memorial Art Gallery
9/8/1999
67.27TR1
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Print
To Monte Alban
Josef Albers, 1888 - 1976
Albers, Josef
United States
1888 - 1976
Male
23 13/16 x 19 1/8 in. (60.5 x 48.6 cm)
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Printer's ink
Printer's ink
1942
1942
1942
1900-2000, 20th century, Charles Rand Penney Collection, line, lithographs
Print
Focus on the two most prominent rectangles in the image. Which of these shapes seems to be closer to you? What architectural structures unfold before your eyes?
Inspired by his travels to Latin American ruins in the 1930s and 1940s, Josef Albers’ print combines his streamlined Modern style of composition with inspirations from the ancient world. This particular print is an homage to the celebrated geometric pyramids of Monte Albán, which date back to around 300 BCE and are located in modern day Oaxaca, Mexico. Albers implies depth by surrounding the two central rectangles with a series of concentric lines, the arrangement mimicking the sloping sides of these grand architectural forms.
In this image, Albers also creates an optical illusion that challenges our perception of spatial depth. Which of these rectangles appears to be the top of the pyramid? Does that change depending on where you look?
[Label copy from Seeing in Color and Black and White, 2018]
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1975.152
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Memorial Art Gallery
9/8/1999
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1/23/2002
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7/8/2016
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