Detail View: ADJUNCT MODULE D: WORLD ART: Ferde
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Collection:
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ADJUNCT MODULE D: WORLD ART
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Preferred Title:
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Ferde
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Alternate Title:
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Oblique
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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.257
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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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1966-1974 (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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collage (visual work)
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Work Type 2:
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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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collage; tempera on cardboard
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Technique:
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collage (technique); painting and painting techniques
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Measurements:
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78 cm (height) x 77 cm (width)
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Subjects:
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architecture; contemporary (1960 to present); nonrepresentational art; City planning; geometric
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Description:
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In the early 1960s, Vasarely put forward a proposal for the use of a universal visual language formulated in accordance with the principle of the Plastic Unit, which he called 'planetary folklore'. He believed that regularly arranged and numbered, homogeneous colors and constant forms, of the kind that could be manufactured industrially, could have meaning attached to them. These could also be scaled to use with architecture. The first of his architectural integrations was implemented in Venezuela in 1954, on the campus of the Central University of Caracas; this was followed by monumental ‘plastic’ installations on buildings in Bonn, Essen, Paris and Grenoble. (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-FE-A01
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Rights:
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© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.
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