Detail View: ADJUNCT MODULE D: WORLD ART: Villog

Collection: 
ADJUNCT MODULE D: WORLD ART
Preferred Title: 
Villog
Image View: 
Overall view
Creator: 
Victor Vasarely (French painter, 1906 or 1908-1997)
Location: 
repository: Vasarely Múzeum (Budapest, Budapest (special city), Hungary) V.235
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: 
1979 (creation)
Cultural Context: 
French
Style Period: 
Op art; Twentieth century
Work Type 1: 
painting (visual work)
Classification: 
Paintings
Material: 
acrylic on canvas
Technique: 
painting and painting techniques
Measurements: 
80 cm (height) x 80 cm (width)
Subjects: 
contemporary (1960 to present); nonrepresentational art; geometric; optical illusion; polyhedra
Description: 
Inspired by contemporary news reports about mysterious signals received from distant galaxies, Vasarely named many of his works after stars and constellations. The Vega series rely on convex-concave distortions of a grid-like network, a sophisticated combination of the cube and the sphere, symbolically referring to the two-way motion of the light that emanates from pulsating stars, and to the functioning of condensing galaxies and the expanding universe. (Source: Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum [website]; https://www.museothyssen.org/en/)
Collection: 
Archivision Adjunct Module D: World Art
Identifier: 
7A1-VASARELY-BOA-VI-A01
Rights: 
© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.