Mystery Painting Description
by Daisy and Melanie
Mystery Painting
recreated by our Walter Hays partners
In this painting there are four geometrical squares. The outside square is lime green, and it is the biggest. The next square is sea blue, and it is inside the lime green square. It is one size smaller. The next square is inside of the sea blue square. It is pinkish gray, and is one size smaller. The next and last square is a sunny yellow color. It is inside of the pinkish gray square. And it is one size smaller.
The space from the bottom of the yellow square to the bottom of the lime green square is the same amount of space from the top of the lime green square to the top of the sea blue square and from the sea blue box to the pinkish gray, and so on. The squares are NOT centered. Each square is down a bit. You have now completed our painting.
This painting was painted by Josef Albers. The painting is called "Homage to the Square: Apparition." It was painted in 1959. It is 47 by 47 inches. You can go to see this painting in the Guggenheim Museum, New York, New York.
Analysis
by Melanie and Daisy
Our partners did a really great job. They followed our description perfectly. They did the colors correctly, and everything was just how we described it. Their squares were geometrical, just as we said, and the way they positioned them was also correct!
The only thing that made it not exactly perfect was our mistake. We were wrong. We could have written the part about the positioning better. They did it just how we described, but what we described was incorrect. We said, "Each square is down a bit." What we should have said was, "Each square is all the way inside the one before it," or something like that. Our partners did an excellent job!