JoSef alberS, Homage to the Square: “Ascending,” 1953. Oil on
composition board, 3′ 7 1–2″ × 3′ 7 1–2″. Whitney Museum of American
Art, New York.
Albers painted hundreds of canvases using the same composition but
employing variations in color saturation and tonality in order to reveal
the relativity and instability of color perception
