Art du Jour - Homage to the Square

Homage to the Square by Josef Albers Oil paint on fibreboard 30 x 30 in 1965

Switching gears a little, we have this minimal yet moving piece from Josef Albers, an influential German-American artist with strong roots in Bauhaus during the 1920s. In 1950, he developed his series Homage to the Square, paintings dedicated to hundreds of variations of the square nestled within one another to showcase the power of simplicity of color and composition. When he started his series, he said "Every perception of colour is an illusion... we do not see colors as they really are. In our perception they alter one another."