Media Information

 
 
 
Collection:
ADJUNCT MODULE D: WORLD ART
Preferred Title:
Nora-Dell
Image View:
Detail of optical illusion at corner of center graphic
Creator:
Victor Vasarely (French printmaker, 1906 or 1908-1997)
Location:
repository: Vasarely Múzeum (Budapest, Budapest (special city), Hungary)
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:
1974-1979 (creation)
Cultural Context:
French
Style Period:
Op art; Twentieth century
Work Type 1:
screen print
Classification:
Prints
Material:
printers ink on paper
Technique:
screen printing
Measurements:
87 cm (height, paper size x 78 cm (width, paper size)
Subjects:
contemporary (1960 to present); nonrepresentational art; geometric; optical illusion
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 which later developed into what was recognized as Op Art. (Source: Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum [website]; https://www.museothy ssen.org/en/)
Collection:
Archivision Adjunct Module D: World Art
Identifier:
7A1-VASARELY-BOA-V-A 04
Rights:
© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.

Nora-Dell