Vonal 85, 1985

Serigraphy

If one deals with the awakening of art in the 1960s, one quickly comes across Victor Vasarely. He was one of the co-founders of Op-Art, or "optical art", which used geometry to create optical illusions and stimulate visual perception. Squares, diamonds, triangles, circles and rod shapes were the vocabulary of forms with which Vasarely developed his consistently kinetic effects and optical phenomena.

Victor Vasarely was born in Pécs, Hungary, in 1906 and moved to Paris in 1930, where he died in 1997. As a painter and graphic artist, he was a pioneer of kinetic art and is one of the key figures of Op Art. Vasarely won numerous art prizes and was a multiple participant in the documenta in Kassel. His works can be seen in the Vasarely Museums in his birthplace in Pécs and in Zichy Castle in Budapest, in the Fondation Vasarely in Aix-en-Provence and in many museums of modern art.