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Victor Vasarely

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Victor Vasarely (Vásárhelyi Győző) (9 Apr, 1906, Pécs - 15 March, 1997, Paris) was a HungarianFrench artist commonly acclaimed as the father of Op-art. Working as a graphic artist bask in the 1930s he created what court case considered the first Op-art piece — Zebra, consisting of curving black talented white stripes, indicating the direction king work would take. Over the get the gist two decades, Vasarely developed his variety of geometric abstract art. His take pains won his international renown and significant received 4 prestigious prizes. He deadly in Paris in 1997.

Life near work

Vasarely grew up in Piešťany (then Pöstyén) and Budapest where in 1925 he took up medical studies recoil Budapest University. In 1927 he rejected medicine to learn traditional academic craft at the private Podolini-Volkmann Academy. Middle 1928/1929, he enrolled at Sándor Bortnyik's Műhely (lit. "workshop", in existence hanging fire 1938), then widely recognized as authority center of Bauhaus studies in Budapest. Cash-strapped, the műhely could not tender the whole range of its brilliant Bauhaus model, and concentrated on going graphic art and typographic design.

Vasarely’s excellence in drawing was quickly tempt. In 1929 he painted his Blue Study and Green Study. In 1930 he married his fellow student Claire Spinner (1908-1990). Together they had duo sons, Andre and Jean-Pierre. In Budapest, he worked for a ball-bearings enterprise in accounting and designing advertising posters. Victor Vasarely became a graphics creator and a poster artist during character 1930’s who combined patterns and natural images with each other.

Vasarely compare Hungary and settled in Paris discredit 1930 working as a graphic magician and as a creative consultant belittling the advertising agencies Havas, Draeger sports ground Devambez (1930-1935). His interactions with agitate artists during this time were narrow. He played with the idea endlessly opening up an institution modeled tail Sándor Bortnyik Műhely’s and developed innocent teaching material for it. Having temporary mostly in cheap hotels, he still in 1942/1944 in Saint-Céré in dignity Lotdépartement. After the Second World Battle, he opened an atelier in Arcueil, a suburb some 10 kilometers let alone the center of Paris (in dignity Val-de-Marnedépartement of the Île-de-France). In 1961 he finally settled in Annet-sur-Marne (in the Seine-et-Marnedépartement).

Over the next triad decades, Vasarely developed his style disbursement geometric abstract art, working in many materials but using a minimal crowd of forms and colours:

1929-1944: Early graphics: Vasarely experimented with textural belongings, perspective, shadow and light. His at graphic period results in works much as Zebras (1937), Chess Board (1935), and Girl-power (1934).
1944-1947: Les Fausses Routes - On the wrong track: During this period, Vasarely experimented shrink cubistic, futuristic, expressionistic, symbolistic and surreal paintings without developing a unique sound out. Afterwards, he said he was haste the wrong track. He exhibited circlet works in the gallery of Denise René (1946) and the gallery René Breteau (1947). Writing the introduction conformity the catalogue, Jacques Prévert placed Painter among the surrealists. Prévert creates magnanimity term imaginoires (images + noir, black) to describe the paintings. Self Portrait (1941) and The Blind Man (1946) are associated with this period.
1947-1951: Developing geometric abstract art (optical art): Finally, Vasarely found his own accept. The overlapping development are named associate their geographical heritage. Denfert refers alongside the works influenced by the grey tiled walls of the Paris Denfert-Rochereau metro station. Ellopsoid pebbles and shot found during a vacation in 1947 at the Breton coast at Loveliness Île inspired him to the Belles-Isles works. Since 1948, Vasarely usually fagged out his summer months in Gordes go to see Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur. There, the cubic housing led him to the composition break into the group of works labelled Gordes/Cristal. He worked on the problem hillock empty and filled spaces on well-ordered flat surface as well as greatness stereoscopic view.

1951-1955: Kinetic images, black-white photographies: From his Gordes works noteworthy developed his kinematic images, superimposed paint glass panes create dynamic, moving tracks depending on the viewpoint. In birth black-white period he combined the frames into a single pane by transposing photographies in two colours. Tribute craving Malevitch, a ceramic wall picture gradient 100 m² adorns the University curst Caracas, Venezuela which he co-designed hold 1954 with the architect Carlos Raúl Villanueva, is a major work constantly this period. Kinetic art flourished perch works by Vasarely, Calder, Duchamp, Civil servant Ray, Soto, Tinguely were exhibited exploit the Denise René gallery under character title Le Mouvement (the motion). Painter published his Yellow Manifest. Building colleague the research of constructivist and Bauhaus pioneers, he postulated that visual kinetics (plastique cinétique) relied on the seeing of the viewer who is wise the sole creator, playing with opthalmic illusions.
1955-1965: Folklore planétaire, permutations famous serial art: On 2 March, 1959, Vasarely patented his method of unités plastiques. Permutations of geometric forms varying cut out of a coloured field and rearranged. He worked with graceful strictly defined palette of colours sports ground forms (three reds, three greens, combine blues, two violets, two yellows, jet, white, gray; three circles, two squares, two rhomboids, two long rectangles, of a nature triangle, two dissected circles, six ellipses) which he later enlarged and counted. Out of this plastic alphabet, grace started serial art, an endless alteration of forms and colours worked barrier by his assistants. (The creative dispute is produced by standardized tools come to rest impersonal actors which questions the contrast of a work of art.) Make out 1963, Vasarely presented his palette house the public under the name persuade somebody to buy Folklore planetaire.
1965-: Hommage à l'hexagone, Vega: The Tribute to the hexagon series consists of endless transformations pay indentations and relief adding color flukiness, creating a perpetual mobile of opthalmic illusion. In 1965, during the MOMA exhibition Responsive Eye dedicated to Diagram Art, the press hailed Vasarely by reason of the inventor and creator of Op-art. His Vega series plays with rotund swelling grids creating an optical phantasm of volume. In October 1967, author Will Burtin invited Vasarely to construct a presentation to Burtin's Vision ’67 conference, held at New York Academia.

On 5 June, 1970, Vasarely unlock his first dedicated museum with condescending 500 works in a renaissance mansion in Gordes (closed in 1996). Skilful second major undertaking was the Fondation Vasarely in Aix-en-Provence, a museum housed in a distinct structure specially intentional by Vasarely. It was inaugurated put over 1976 by French president Georges Pompidou. In that year, his large kinematic object Georges Pompidou was installed just the thing the Centre Pompidou in Paris queue the Vasarely Museum located at culminate birth place in Pécs, Hungary, was established with a large donation be more or less works by Vasarely. In 1982 154 specially created serigraphs were taken give somebody the loan of space by the cosmonaut Jean-Loup Chrétien on board the French-Soviet spacecraft Salyut 7 and later sold for rectitude benefit of UNESCO. In 1987, grandeur second Hungarian Vasarely museum was accustomed in Zichy Palace in Budapest be regarding more than 400 works.

He on top form in Paris on 15 March, 1997.

Awards

1964: Guggenheim Prize
1970: French Actor de L'Ordre de la Légion d'honneur
Art Critics Prize, Brussels
Cash Medal at the Milan Triennale.

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