Kaleidoscope based on Homage to the Square, 1965 by Josef Albers

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   Josef Albers Square

Josef Albers (1888 - 1976) was a German-born American artist (geometric abstraction) and educator whose work, both in Europe and in the United States, formed the basis of some of the most influential and far-reaching art education programs of the 20th century.

Homage to the Square. These paintings investigated the retinal effects of color. He published the fruits of this systematic research in a volume called, the Interaction of Color in 1963. Albers used nested squares to investigate color interaction.

Geometric abstract art is a form of abstract art based on the use of geometric forms sometimes, though not always, placed in non-illusionistic space and combined into non-objective (non-representational) compositions.

Kaleidoscope is an optical instrument consisting of mirrors that reflect images of bits of colored glass or other objects in a symmetrical geometric design through a viewer. form of abstract art based on the use of geometric forms sometimes, though not always, placed in non-illusionistic space and combined into non-objective compositions.

For a 2D symmetry group, a kaleidoscopic point is a point of intersection of two or more lines of reflection symmetry.