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Victor Vasarely
German
187 pages, Hardcover
Published January 1, 1992
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July 20, 2024
Victor Vasarely was a Hungarian-French artist, the Father of Op Art Movement, a key figure of kinetic art, who believed that art is for everyone.
He discovered that background is just as important as the main element of a painting. He created a color-plastic alphated:
Orion Noir
His colorful works based on using his alphabet are really impressive but I love just as much his black and white paintings.
Yvaral
Zint
This art album beautifully presents the works of Vasarely.
He discovered that background is just as important as the main element of a painting. He created a color-plastic alphated:
"I selected six basic colors: a chrome yellow, an emerald green, an ultramarine, a cobalt violet, a red and a gray. From it I obtained six scales, each with 12 or 13 nuances, ranging from light to dark, and I added colored blacks—a blue black, a red black, a green black, and so on. I had tens of thousands of sheets printed by the serigraphic process, and had all the units of my alphabet punched out of them. Placed in cases, like type characters, they are so many form-colors that form the surest and fastest method of realizing my programmings executed on scale paper. By simple collage I obtain exactly what I want, that is, a combination which is both formal and colored, and which I call algorithm or permutation. But these collages are not yet definitive plastic functions. They constitute the tangible results of basic research; they are ’starting-point prototypes."
Orion Noir
His colorful works based on using his alphabet are really impressive but I love just as much his black and white paintings.
Yvaral
Zint
This art album beautifully presents the works of Vasarely.
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