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Collection:
ADJUNCT MODULE D: WORLD ART
Preferred Title:
Ondho
Image View:
Overall view
Creator:
Victor Vasarely (French painter, 1906 or 1908-1997)
Location:
exhibition: Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza (Madrid, Madrid, Spain)
Location Note:
Paseo del Prado, 8; Victor Vasarely: The Birth of Op Art (Exhibition, June 7-September 9 2018)
GPS:
40.416111-3.695
Date:
1959-1960 (creation)
Cultural Context:
French
Style Period:
Op art; Twenty-first century
Work Type 1:
painting (visual work)
Classification:
Paintings
Material:
acrylic paint on wood panel
Technique:
painting and painting techniques
Measurements:
153 cm (height) x 122 cm (width)
Subjects:
abstraction; contemporary (1960 to present); series
Description:
In the 1950s and early 1960s, Vasarely had a black and white period which he called Kineticism. Inspired by Kazimir Malevich’s Suprematist composition, Black and White (1915), which embodies the harmony of spirituality and is widely interpreted as the 'end point' of painting, Vasarely conceived of the picture titled Homage to Malevich (1954). Its basic component, a square rotated about its axis so that it appears as a rhombus, became the starting point of his 'kinetic' works. Ondho is the title of several similar paintings and screenprints. One version of the painting is in the collection of MoMA; this is in a private collection. (Source: Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum [website]; https://www.museothy ssen.org/en/)
Collection:
Archivision Adjunct Module D: World Art
Identifier:
7A1-VASARELY-BOA-ON- A01
Rights:
© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.

Ondho