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The Vasarely Foundation is located in the heart of Provence, the opposite side of Aix to the Sainte-Victoire mountain in Cézanne country. The building constructed in 1976 is inspired by Bauhaus architecture and made up of 16 hexagonal units: it houses 42 monumental works by Vasarely, the father of cinetism, with a room dedicated to optical art.
«"CHESSBOARD" - 1935 - Victor Vasarely wanted to show that art can be incorporated into architecture to enhance everyday life. The works use a variety of techniques (reliefs, painting and transparencies) and different materials (wood, metal and plastics). Using geometry by combining shapes and colours, he creates volume, space and movement and the spectator becomes a participant; the eye is captivated by the diversity of optical effects which merge with the extraordinary architecture of the rooms. Vasarely, Victor (1908-1997). Hungarian-French artist. The founder of Op Art - the style's leading theorist and its most inventive practician. Vasarely was born in Pécs in Hungary, and he died in Paris. From 1925-27 he studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Budapest, and after that he studied under Sándor Bortnyik at Mühely (the Bauhaus of Budapest) - at Mühely he became acquainted with the abstract geometric art of Klee and Kandinsky and Wilhelm Ostwald colour system. Vasarely settled in Paris in the early 1930s, and he married Claire Spinner, they became parents of two sons. In Paris Vasarely worked as graphics artist and created his first and the first Op Art painting "Zebra", the following years he explored optical effects in his graphic works, and in the next two decades he developed his own (scientific) abstract geometric style - paintings, drawings and designs in black and white. In the 1950s he introduced new materials in his paintings e.g. glass and aluminium. In 1955 he published his "Manifeste jaune" ("Yellow Manifesto") - he was aware of that the easel painting was outdated and suggested the necessity of a homogeneity in plastic art.
«"HARLEQUIN" 1935 by Victor When he invented Op Art in 1957, he imagined a new function of art, he concluded that a work of art was not a reflection of the inner world of the artist more like objects, a result of a work - the only justification of art was to give beauty and joy to human beings and to create peace and harmony. The painting "Vega" from 1957, looks like a twisted chessboard, was named after the brightest star in the constellation Lyra. In the late 1960s he achieved great success in the Op Art exhibition "Lumière et mouvement" at Musée d'Art Moderne in Paris.
«Victor VASARELY inspired by Chess:
A Knight by Victor VASARELY In 1970 Vasarely inaugurated his own Museum - Musée Vasarely in Château de Gourdes in Vaucluse Southern France. Vasarely's works is represented at major museum all over the world. He received many artistic awards and honorary awards, e.g. he was awarded the rank of Officer in the French Legion of Honor and honorary citizen of New York, he received the Guggenheim Prize and the Art Critics Prize in Brussels, and he won a gold medal at the Milan Triennale.
«Victor VASARELY - Leader A French astronaut brought along 157 prints made by Vasarely at the Soviet Russian spacecraft Salyut 7 in 1982. In 1987 the Vasarely Museum in Budapest in Hungary was inaugurated, the museum houses a great collection of his works and works by other Hungarian artists, who worked outside the country. (Op Art)
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