A person's identity is a composite picture of one's ideas, beliefs, infinite longings, abstractions, glances in mirrors, personal
relationships, size, height, weight and
color; one's library card, driver's license, social security number, bank account, acquired names; one's occupying one space as
opposed to another, one's wearing of certain clothes as
opposed to others, one's taste in food, one's sex.
Homage to the Square is characterized by a superimposition of squares in distinct
colors — often capturing two
opposing moments, moods, times of day, or seasons — to explore the myriad possible visual effects through
color and spatial
relationships alone.
This contrast between the vibrancy of Francis»
color palette and the austere white picture plane demonstrate the artist's concern with
relationships of space,
color, and light, as
opposed to the psychologically expressive tendencies of contemporaries such as Jackson Pollock.