Josef Albers’ involvement at the Staatliches Bauhaus school of art, architecture and design in Weimar, Germany, from 1923-1933 was instrumental in bringing Modernism to the United States. As a teacher and theoretician, he taught at major institutions in America where he influenced the rise of Color Field Painting and Minimalism. His principal artistic philosophy centered on the interaction between colors and their influence on one another. Albers articulated his theory in the series Homage to the Square, which he pursued from 1950 until his death in 1976. Allusive is one of more than a thousand works in the series consisting of mathematically aligned squares of varying hues and shades. Albers superimposed the squares to illustrate the visual ability of colors to connect and separate, advance and retreat, and create tension and harmony through proximity.
