Blog Post #3

This paint is from the Whitney Museum of American Art. The artist of this paint is Josef Albers who lived from 1888 to 1976. The title of this piece is Homage to the Square: "Gained."  As you can see, it is a drawing which is 2D. This painting is drawn by an oil color on the composition board. It is a non-representational art with a pattern of a smaller box inside the bigger box with an actual shape of a square which is a geometric shape. The pattern is repeated within different colors. The squares are perfect lineage which has a contour line that separates them to a smaller box. On the composition board, there is no negative space that there is nowhere it is not colored. There is no value but through the colors that artist used, it makes the work distinctive. The board is colored with orange, yellow, brown and red. This work looks simple but when you look at the colors, I can tell that the artist actually had a purpose of using each colors and placing them in the orders. For example, the colors that were used in this painting is a warm tone colors. The two primary colors were used which is yellow and red. It shows an interaction between each different colors that separates them from the bigger box. Also, I noticed that the analogous which means adjacent colors on the color wheel is used by implying red, orange and yellow. What was outstanding to me was the color of brown between the yellow and red. The color brown is made when the red is mixed with its complementary color which is green. Moreover, it is a color that's between the color of red and yellow in the color wheel at the same time. This shows the box becoming dark, heavy, and think as it gets smaller. Through the colors and the pattern that has in the painting, the boxes can be seen as a group but it can also be seen as individuals which shows that these boxes seem to be connected but separated at the same time.