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Victor Vasarely Biography

A personal recollection (by Alex Adelman): I was very fortunate to have met Victor Vasarely several times and will always remember him as a very warm, funny, charming, intelligent man. However, what struck me most about him was that he had a child-like innocence and wonderment toward both people and the world around him. The last time I saw him, a year or so ago, I remember fondly watching him play Yvaral several games of chess. Needless to say, he beat Yvaral each time! We shared a glass of wine, chocolates and then he entertained us with Hungarian folk songs. It was a truly fun and memorable occasion!

Considered the father of the Op Art, artist Victor Vasarelywas born on April 9^th, 1908 in Pécs, Hungary. Internationally recognized as one of the most important artists of the 20th century, his innovations in color and optical illusion have had a strong influence on many modern artists. Spanning most of his career, our collection of his prints and sculptures explores his forays into some of his most famous works such as the plastic alphabet

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Victor Vasarely (Vásárhelyi Győző) (1906 -1997) was a French Hungarian-born artist often acclaimed as the father of Op-art. Working as a graphic artist in the 1930s he created what is considered the first Op-art piece Zebra, consisting of curving black and white stripes, indicating the direction his work would take. Over the next two decades, Vasarely developed his style of geometric abstract art and gained international renown.

Born in Pecs, Hungary on April 9, 1906 Vasarely was raised in Budapest, and took up medical studies ay Budapest University in 1925. Two years later, he abandoned medicine to study painting at Polini-Volkmann Academy, and later at the Mülheny, where he expanded his studies in graphic art. He married fellow student Claire Spinner in 1930 and they had two sons; around this time they left Hungary and moved to Paris, where he worked as a creative consultant in advertising.

At the end of the Second World War, he opened an atelier in Arcueil, and began to focus on his more geometric paintings and prints, beginning to refine hi

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Victor Vasarely

Hungarian-French artist

The native form of this personal name is Vásárhelyi Győző. This article uses Western name order when mentioning individuals.

Victor Vasarely (French:[viktɔʁvazaʁeli]; born Győző Vásárhelyi, Hungarian:[ˈvaːʃaːrhɛjiˈɟøːzøː]; 9 April 1906^[1] – 15 March 1997) was a Hungarian-French artist, who is widely accepted as a "grandfather" and leader^[2] of the Op art movement.

His work titled Zebra, created in 1937, is considered by some to be one of the earliest examples of Op art.

Life and work

Vasarely was born in Pécs and grew up in Piešťany (then Pöstény) and Budapest, where, in 1925, he took up medical studies at Eötvös Loránd University. In 1927, he abandoned medicine to learn traditional academic painting at the private Podolini-Volkmann Academy. In 1928/1929, he enrolled at Sándor Bortnyik's private art school called Műhely (lit. "Workshop", in existence until 1938), then widely recognized as Budapest's center of Bauhaus studies. Cash-strapped, the műhely could not offer all t