Homage to the Square: Red Brass

Red Brass may seem like an elementary exercise: a red square inside a larger violet square inside a still-larger teal-blue square. It is actually part of Josef Albers's sophisticated, lifelong investigation of the spatial and psychological relationships among color, form, and proportion. It is one of hundreds in his Homage to the Square series. While teaching at the Bauhaus, Albers experimented with color intensity and placement, allowing the colors to mix in the viewer's eyes. His book, The Interaction of Color (1963), is a classic text of color theory.

Gift of the Friends of Art