Attika +
1957-1960
- Medium
- oil and black ballpoint pen on canvas
- Measurements
- 120.0 × 100.4 cm
- Inscription
- inscribed in red ballpoint pen l.c.: Vasarely
inscribed in black ballpoint pen on reverse u.l.: Vaserely / ATTIKA + / 1957-60 / 100 x 120 - Accession Number
- 1790-5
- Department
- International Painting
- Credit Line
- National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Felton Bequest, 1967 - Gallery location
- Not on display
- About this work
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A leading precursor of the Op Art movement, Victor Vasarely worked as a graphic designer in the advertising industry before specialising in painting and sculpture devoted to optical illusions. In his own words:
Objectively speaking, what I paint is a two-dimensional composition of forms – colours or a multi-dimensional structure in which intuition, science and technique all have a share, containing visual stimuli and intended for one of the multiple plastic functions of the modern city...
Having convinced myself of the vanity of tirelessly representing the named or unnamed archetypes of nature, I wish to create the beings of a world apart, that of pure plastics: genesis, birth, abundance, complexification, perfecting, functionalization of plastic structures.
- Subjects (general)
- Nonrepresentational Art
- Subjects (specific)
- angles (geometric concepts) flat (form attributes) geometric abstraction stripes
- Movements
- Op art
