Interaction of Color
Color is the most relative medium in art.
Color Relativity
Drag the inner squares to see how the background changes their appearance.
"One color looks like two."
Transparency Illusion
Drag the center slab up and down to find the perfect transparent mix.
Bezold Effect
Adjust the background brightness and watch the red bricks shift in your perception.
Vibrating Boundaries
Tune the blue brightness until the edge trembles—your eyes struggle with equal-luminance complements.
Color Subtraction
The two squares are different colors. Drag them onto different backgrounds until they appear identical.
(Tip: place Color 1 on the left, Color 2 on the right.)
Stare at the dot
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Recommended Reading
Bauhaus
Magdalena Droste
Understand the foundation of Albers' teaching philosophy.
The Art of Color
Johannes Itten
A feeling-first color system from another Bauhaus master.
Theory of Colours
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
A phenomenological challenge to Newtonian optics, cherished by Albers.
Concerning the Spiritual in Art
Wassily Kandinsky
Explores the inner force of color and form—the backbone of abstract art.
Point and Line to Plane
Wassily Kandinsky
A Bauhaus basic course distilled into a precise language of visual elements.
Vision in Motion
László Moholy-Nagy
Experiments with technology, light, and perception that stretched modern design.