The original publication contains over 150 separate illustrations demonstrating exactly how subjective our perception of color is. The following images are just a few samples from that portfolio. This series of paintings illustrates Albers’ lifelong fascination with the subtleties of color – a fascination he fully explored in the portfolio of prints titled Interaction of Color. What was important in each of these paintings was not the geometric composition but the relationships of colors and how the viewer perceives both individual colors as well as the total combination. The composition of each of these paintings remained pretty much the same from one canvas to the next – squares nestled within squares, with subtly modified color harmonies. In 1950 he became the Chair of the Design Department at Yale University.Īs an artist Albers’ is known for a series of paintings he created titled Homage To The Square. He came to the United States just before World War Two and taught at Black Mountain College in North Carolina. Josef Albers was born and raised in Germany. The portfolio of silk screen prints he published in 1963 titled The Interaction of Color remains the definitive work on this subject to this day.
One artist/teacher in the mid-twentieth century who was particularly fascinated by the way colors interact with each other and their environment was Josef Albers. Artists and designers routinely incorporate aspects of this phenomena in their work. When we look at individual colors our perception of them is strongly influenced by their environment including the adjacent or surrounding colors and the ambient light on the scene.
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