Detail View: ADJUNCT MODULE D: WORLD ART: Study on Cardboard 3-2 Birth of Plastic Unit "Transmutation Figurative-Abstract"

Collection: 
ADJUNCT MODULE D: WORLD ART
Preferred Title: 
Study on Cardboard 3-2 Birth of Plastic Unit "Transmutation Figurative-Abstract"
Alternate Title: 
Étude 2, présentoir 3 "Historique"
Image View: 
Detail, top right of cardboard panel with two of the collaged pieces
Creator: 
Victor Vasarely (French artist, 1906 or 1908-1997)
Location: 
repository: Fondation Vasarely (Aix-en-Provence, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France) 2011.0.117
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: 
1975 (creation)
Cultural Context: 
French
Style Period: 
Twentieth century
Work Type 1: 
cartoon (working drawing)
Work Type 2: 
collage (visual work)
Work Type 3: 
drawing (visual work)
Classification: 
Drawings and Watercolors
Material: 
collage; tempera on cardboard and ink on paper
Technique: 
collage (technique); drawing (image-making)
Measurements: 
81.8 cm (height) x 75.8 cm (width)
Subjects: 
abstraction; contemporary (1960 to present); art theory
Description: 
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/)
Collection: 
Archivision Adjunct Module D: World Art
Identifier: 
7A1-VASARELY-BOA-SC-A05
Rights: 
© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.