by Natalie Akins, Roddie Trotter, and Abbigail Kirkman

“Color is the most relative medium in art.” Josef Albers

The “1 as 2 project” is an iconic exercise that Josef Albers would assign his students. This project involved placing two small color swatches, IDENTICAL in color, on two larger color fields – each a different color. The students would then observe how identical color swatches appear to be two different colors when influenced by the larger color fields.

Scroll through the document below to learn more about the process and theory for these pieces of art and theory.

Abbigail Kirkman
Natalie Atkins
Roddie Trotter

Created for FYS178 with Suzie Dittenber