Plate VI-1 from Josef Albers’s “Interaction of Color,” an influential handbook on color theory published by Yale University Press in 1963 as a limited edition of 2,000 copies, each with 150 color plates. The majority of the plates were based on student collages made in classes taught by Albers when he was chairman of Yale’s Department of Design in the 1950s. Based on a color study made by Gene Kloszewski when he was a student at Yale, this plate demonstrates the color illusion that results when the same colors are placed on fields of varying color. It is currently on view, along with other works by Albers and his students, at the Yale School of Art’s 32 Edgewood Avenue Gallery. Also on view is the “Interaction of Color” interactive iPad app, which was published by Yale University Press in 2013 and can be purchased from the App Store.
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