Collection:
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ADJUNCT MODULE D: WORLD ART
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Preferred Title:
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Vega
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Image View:
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Detail showing optical illusion
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Creator:
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Victor Vasarely (French printmaker, 1906 or 1908-1997)
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Location:
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repository: Vasarely Múzeum (Budapest, Budapest (special city), Hungary) V.307
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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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1957-1959 (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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screen print
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Classification:
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Prints
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Material:
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printers ink on paper
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Technique:
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screen printing
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Measurements:
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37 cm (height) x 51 cm (width)
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Subjects:
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nonrepresentational art; geometric; optical illusion; polyhedra; serigraphs
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Description:
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Between 1951 and 1959 Victor Vasarely continued working with geometric shapes and also began to paint predominantly in black and white. He called this period Kineticism. In Vega (painting, 1957), named after the brightest star in the constellation Lyra, Vasarely paints a huge checkerboard, its regularity disturbed by the bending of the lines that make the squares. He was to return to this idea in the 1970s, as the convex-concave distortions recall the pulsations of stars. The limited edition screen prints were created after the painting. (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-V-A03
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Rights:
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© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.
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