Albers color theory

He used the expression “magic of colours” for the ways they deceive our optical senses. “First, it should be learned that one and the same colour evokes innumerable readings.” Colour when isolated will appear differently to when placed in a certain context, or among other colours. The essence of his teachings was that “In order to use colour effectively, it is necessary to recognise that colour deceives continually.”

He taught an “experimental way of studying and teaching colour” which is now essential to understanding colour theory today. His book, ‘Interaction of Color’, was originally published in 1963. Josef Albers revolutionised the way we understand and use colour. This fact makes colour the most relative medium in art.” “In visual perception a colour is almost never seen as it really is – as it physically is.