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Homage to the Square

painting series by Albers

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  • Josef Albers, photograph by Arnold Newman, 1948.
    In Josef Albers

    His best-known series of paintings, Homage to the Square (begun in 1950 and continued until his death), restricts its repertory of forms to coloured squares superimposed onto each other. The arrangement of these squares is carefully calculated so that the colour of each square optically alters the sizes, hues, and…

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