Nationality
Hungarian-French
Artist Dates
1906-1997
Preview
Date of Work
1967
Medium
serigraph with embossing
Signature
Lower right
Height
18 1/2" (framed)
Width
17" (framed)
Collection/Provenance
Provenance: James Smith Pierce Collection
Gift from the estate of James Smith Pierce to the Art & Design Study Collection
Status
Displayed: Fourth floor, Conference room E493, next to Office of the Dean
Location
School of Medicine & Health Sciences Building
Additional Information
Critics have called Victor Vasarely the father of Op Art, a movement that sought to challenge viewers and expand the spatial experience of painting by employing optical illusions. The positive and negative spaces in this serigraph make the black and white shapes almost appear to be in motion- an effect heightened by the three-dimensionality of the embossed image.
James Smith Pierce Collection.
Tag: JSP Estate Collection