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Artist Information

Victor Vasarely was a Hungarian-born painter who became a French citizen in
1959. He was the main originator and one of the leading practitioners of Op
art. He settled in Paris in 1930, and for the next decade worked chiefly as a
commercial artist, particularly on the designing of posters, showing a
keen interest in visual tricks such as trompl'oeil effects. From 1943 he turned
to painting and about four years later he adopted the method of geometrical
abstraction for which he was best known.

Typically he created a hallucinatory impression of movement through visual
ambiguity, using alternating positive-negative shapes interrupted in such a way as
to suggest underlying secondary shapes.

In 1970, Vasarely created a Vasarely Museum in Gordes and in 1976 formed a
Vasarely Foundation near Aix-en-Provence. Another Vasarely Museum is in his
Hungarian birthplace, Pecs, and there is also a Vasarely Centre in New York.