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  • Vasarely

Vasarely

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    4.60 (19 ratings by Goodreads)
  • Наличност: Изчерпано
  • Автор:Magdalena Holzhey
    Година на издаване:2018
    Език: Английски
    Корица: Hardback
    Страници: 96

Hungarian-French painter Victor Vasarely (1906-1997) was a precocious talent. His earliest surviving painting, a landscape done at age 12, baffled through its realism-an indication of the compelling illusions of spatial depth that would later define his dazzling universe.

Inspired by the likes of Malevich and the Bauhaus school, Vasarely developed his own abstract-geometric visual language, exploring the relationship between pure form and pure color. Vasarely's experimentation with optical effects in the 1940s and '50s earned him a central role in the evolution of Op Art. By the late '50s and early '60s, he concentrated on the "democratization of art" by producing "multiples"-reasonably priced original

works reproduced in large editions. Vasarely's attempt to "destroy the completely obsolete myth of the unique, inimitable masterwork" was a tremendous contribution to art theory. To him, there was no place for hierarchical division into originals and reproductions, nor for distinction between fine and commercial art-"We cannot leave the enjoyment of art to an elite of connoisseurs forever," he declared. This redefinition of the artist's position and function in society marked a crucial first step in the Pop Art movement.

Vasarely's boldly colorful and eye-popping paintings are instantly recognizable and remain entirely modern and relevant today. In this dependable introduction, we explore the makings of an artist ahead of his time. Crisp reproductions and insightful texts celebrate the father of the Op

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  • Magdalena Holzhey
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  • Автор Magdalena Holzhey
    Година на издаване 2018
    Език Английски
    Корица Hardback
    Страници 96
    Размери 0.570kg (21cm x 26cm)
    Категория Книги на английски език /  Art /  Книги на английски език. / 
    Код: 0251.00767
    ISBN/Barcode: 9783836573955
    Производител: TASCHEN
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