Two Colour Studies for Homage To The Square

" Two Colour Studies for Homage To The Square" by Josef Albers is a popular painting by the artist. Josef Albers was a German-born American artist and educator whose work, both in Europe and in the United States, formed the basis of modern art education programs of the twentieth century. Accomplished as a designer, photographer, typographer, printmaker, and poet, Albers is best remembered for his work as an abstract painter and theorist. He favoured a very disciplined approach to composition. Usually painting on Masonite, he used a palette knife with oil colours and often recorded the colours he used on the back of his works.

Josef Albers, an American Painter, Poet, Sculptor, Teacher, and Theoretician, whose work, formed the basis of some of the most influential and far-reaching art education programs of the twentieth century.   Albers's most profound impact on the history and practice of modern art was his transformation of art education and pedagogy. Central to this pedagogy was a non-dogmatic, un-hierarchical, "scientific" approach based on observation and experimentation.His strategies of "defamiliarization," such as drawing with the non-dominant hand, mirror writing, exploring optical illusions, and representing "negative" spaces, sharpened visual observation, precision, and awareness and are now an accepted part of the academic training of visual artists.