Now You See It, Now You Don't

Victor Vasarely was a Hungarian-born artist who used ideal mathematical forms throughout his career. Simple geometry provides the foundation of his optical art.


Vasarely employed a basic repetition of form that uses color in an ambiguous way, suggesting both "in" and "out" simultaneously.

He would also skew otherwise "regular" geometrical shapes to suggest a dimensionality on the flat surfaces of his paintings.

3 comments:

Andrew said...

Vasarely sculptures are very impressive pieces. One of the pieces that you display above (2nd image) is called "Duo-2" from 1967. And I think the 3rd image is "Vega-Tek" or something like that, worth $100k+.

I am currently looking into these Vasarely works.

An amazing artist Vasarely was. Thank you for this post.

-x said...

Andrew, you're right! Vasarely was an amazing artist, and it would be neglectful of me to ignore his sculptures... perhaps my next post?

Andrew said...

I think a Vasarely sculptures post would be a great idea. The artist "Yvaral" is the son of Vasarely who made similar works. You should check him out as well.