Collection:
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ADJUNCT MODULE D: WORLD ART
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Preferred Title:
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Kotzka
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Image View:
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Overall view
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Creator:
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Victor Vasarely (French painter, 1906 or 1908-1997)
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Location:
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repository: Vasarely Múzeum (Budapest, Budapest (special city), Hungary) V.222
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Location Note:
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Paseo del Prado, 8; Victor Vasarely: The Birth of Op Art (Exhibition, June 7-September 9 2018)
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GPS:
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+40.416111-3.695
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Date:
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1973-1976 (creation)
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Cultural Context:
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French
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Style Period:
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Op art; Twentieth century
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Work Type 1:
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painting (visual work)
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Classification:
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Paintings
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Material:
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acrylic paint on canvas
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Technique:
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painting and painting techniques
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Measurements:
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130 cm (height) x 130 cm (width)
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Subjects:
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contemporary (1960 to present); nonrepresentational art; geometric; optical illusion
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Description:
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Vasarely presented the results of his analytical research into the Plastic Unit at an exhibition held in the Musée des Arts Décoratifs in Paris in 1963. His formula for this was built on the structural interplay of form and color. He claimed to perceive a 'grammar' of visual language, with which a set of basic forms making up a composition could be arranged into a system similar to musical notation. He referred to this as his plastic alphabet. (Source: Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum [website]; https://www.museothyssen.org/en/)
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Collection:
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Archivision Adjunct Module D: World Art
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Identifier:
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7A1-VASARELY-BOA-KO-A01
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Rights:
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© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.
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