Six Squares

© Richard Anuszkiewicz / Licensed by VAGA at Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY

Six Squares

Currently not on view

Six Squares,

1969

Richard Anuszkiewicz, American, 1930–2020
x1982-36

Anuszkiewicz was a student of Josef Albers at Yale, where he studied color theory based on that taught at the Bauhaus—a German school of art, architecture, and design—as well as more recent psychological studies on visual perception. Synthesizing these lessons, Anuszkiewicz began to focus on color interaction within hard-edged geometric compositions and linear patterns. In this work, the eye combines pure colors that are adjacent to one another, so that the yellow-green, blue-green, and blue lines that form a grid of six squares create an illusion of overlapping diamonds.

Information

Title
Six Squares
Dates

1969

Maker
Richard Anuszkiewicz
Medium
Screenprint
Dimensions
image: 61 x 91 cm (24 x 35 13/16 in.) sheet: 64 x 94 cm (25 3/16 x 37 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Robert A. Koch, Graduate School Class of 1954
Object Number
x1982-36
Signatures
signed, numbered, dated lower right on blue border: Anuszkiewicz 107/200 1969
Culture
American
Type
oil paintings, prints, screen prints
Materials
printing ink
Techniques
screen printing
Subject
squares (geometric figures), red

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