About Victor Vasarely
Victor Vasarely was a French-Hungarian artist who is widely recognised as the ‘leader’ of the Optical art movement.
In 1927, he quit his medical studies to learn traditional academic painting at the private Podolini-Volkmann Academy. In 1928, he enrolled in Sándor Bortnyik’s private art school, a Bauhaus-style academy and workshop in Budapest, where he studied from 1929 to 1930.
He settled in Paris in the 1930s, where he worked as a graphic artist and decorator. Gradually, he started using abstract visual effects, to depict objects from daily life.
Vasarely became one of the leading proponents of geometric abstract art, also called Op art (Optical art), which was very popular in Europe and the United States in the 1960s.
His work is characterised by bold contrasts, initially limiting himself to black and white although he later expanded his colour palette. His swelling linear grids create an optical illusion of volume.
Born in Hungary in 1906, passed away in 1997.
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