Can you tell where Wittgenstein's Philosophical Investigations (Part II, xi, p. 193) leaves off and Albers' Interaction of Color (Chapter II, p. 5) picks up?
I contemplate a face, and then suddenly notice its likeness to another. I see that it has not changed; and yet I see it differently. I call this experience "noticing an aspect".There is an obvious similarity of temperament here.
Its causes are of interest to psychologists.
We are interested in the concept and its place among the concepts of experience.
Equally, a factual identification of colors within a given painting
has nothing to do with sensitive seeing
nor with an understanding of the color action within the painting.
Our study of color differs fundamentally from a study which anatomically
dissects colorants (pigments) and physical qualities (wave length).
Our concern is the interaction of color; that is, seeing
what happens between colors.
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