School of Art

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School of Art
Aberystwyth University
Buarth Mawr
Aberystwyth
Ceredigion
SY23 1NG

Tel: +44 (0)1970 622460

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Email: artschool@aber.ac.uk


Display artist/maker:

Victor Vasarely

Born: 1908, Hungary, Pécs    Died: 1997, France, Paris

Painter, sculptor and printmaker. Father of artist Yvaral, Jean-Pierre Vasarely, (1934-2002). Vasarely studied at the Műhely Academy, which was comparable to the German Bauhaus, in Budapest from 1929 to 1930 after abandoning his medical studies. In 1930, he moved to Paris where he designed posters for an advertising agency. His early works were influenced by artists such as Piet Mondrian (1872-1944) and Kazimir Malevich (1878-1935). One of his first exhibitions was staged at the Gallery Denise René in 1944. In 1955 he exhibited kinetic art at the same gallery together with Marcel Duchamp (1887-1969), Man Ray (1890-1976), and Alexander Calder (1898-1976). He also created optical illusions, which became more abstract and geometrical in the course of his career. Vasarely is often considered the founding father of Op Art, his image ‘Zebra’, created in the 1930s, being one of the earliest examples of that movement. He exhibited internationally, for example at the documenta in Kassel, Germany, and at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, and received prestigious awards such as the Guggenheim Prize in 1964.

Objects in the collections associated with this artist/maker

Herim PR3141 Prints




 
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