Description
Victor VASARELY: * 1906, Pécs/Ungarn † 1997, Paris
Execution: Heliogravures
Date: about 1970
Dimensions: each 27 x 27 cm
Signed: unsigned
Condition: small damages, condition see photos
Provenance: original work from private collection
Born Vasárhely Gyozo on 9 April 1906 in the Hungarian city of Pécs, Victor Vasarely began studying medicine and switched to painting two years later. At the end of the 1920s, Vasarely studied at the Mücheli School of Graphic Arts in Budapest, where he worked in the Bauhaus tradition. Vasarely settled in Paris in 1930, where he worked as a commercial artist and developed his unique abstract artistic aesthetic.
He is considered one of the founders of the Op Art movement. His vocabulary of forms includes the square, rhombus, triangle, circle and lines. He always relied on kinetic effects and optical phenomena. In his paintings and sculptures, Vasarely used geometric shapes and colour-intensive graphics to create spatial illusions on two-dimensional surfaces. This abstract painting style, also known as kinetism, was influenced by the principles of the Bauhaus and the abstraction of Wassily Kandinsky.
