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In 1949  he wrote a definitive text on colour theory but it was not until the 1960s that  he began work on a series of coloured squares and rectangles, which explored the idea of colour as an illusion, depending on context. \"We do not  see colours as they really are\" he wrote \"in our perception they alter one another\"  his experiments in this field depended on the medium of screen-print because its reliably consistent evenness of colour could be produced very easily and with great speed.","physicalDescription":"square format image, with three different coloured rectangles placed symmetrically, one inside the other. The smallest rectangle is a greyish blue, placed  so that the margin above it is roughly double the width of the margins on its two sides and the margins on its two sides roughly double the width of the margin on the fourth, base side. The blue rectangle sits in a rectangle of grey, and the grey rectangle sits in a rectangle of greyish green. 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