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In visual perception a colour is almost never seen as it really is — as it physically is. This fact makes colour the most relative medium in art.

Josef Albers

Painter · Bauhaus · 1888–1976

German-American Bauhaus theorist whose Homage to the Square nested coloured panels to prove every hue is a relation, not a thing.

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In visual perception a colour is almost never seen as it really is — as it physically is. This fact makes colour the most relative medium in art.

German-American Bauhaus theorist whose Homage to the Square nested coloured panels to prove every hue is a relation, not a thing.

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