Mystery Painting Description
by Anna and Patrick
Mystery Painting
recreated by our Walter Hays partners
SHAPE: Draw one big square. Inside the big square, draw another square almost as big, and put it a little down from the middle. Inside that square, draw another square almost as big as the previous square, and put it a little down from the middle. Inside that square, draw another square almost as big as the last square. Put it a little down from the middle. You should end up with four squares.
COLOR: The biggest square is light blue, and a tiny bit darker at the bottom. The next square is bluish grey, and dark grey at the bottom. The next square is perfectly white. The last square is a bright yellow, and a tiny bit darker at the edges. This painting makes us feel like it is really geometric and perfect.
This painting was painted by Josef Albers. It is called "Homage to the Square: Ascending." It was painted in 1953. It is now in the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York, New York.
Analysis
by Anna and Patrick
Our partners got the four squares right and in the right place. They got the colors almost right.
The colors are not quite exactly right. The yellow square was mixed with green. The white was mixed with yellow. Also, we should have told them to make the lines very straight instead of wiggly, like they did.