Homage to the Square

Homage to the Square is the title of a series of paintings produced by Josef Albers between 1950 and his death in 1976. In 1971, the paintings were the subject of the first solo show devoted to a living artist at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. There are over 1000 works within the series. Albers used this series as a color study, to show the differences in how color behaves when painted in a pure form.^: 6

Homage to the Square is heavily influenced by Albers' theories of art and his experiments with nontraditional techniques and art materials. The Homage to the Square series focuses on geometrically based abstraction, stemming from his time at the Bauhaus.