Victor Vasarely

Birth: April 9, 1908 - Pécs, Hungary

Death: March 15, 1997 - Paris, France

Victor Vasarely was trained as an artist in Budapest, Hungary. In 1930 he left Hungary and settled in Paris, France, where he initially supported himself as a commercial artist but continued to do his own work. During the 1930s he was influenced by Constructivism, but by the 1940s his characteristic style of painting (animated surfaces of geometric forms and interacting colors) had emerged. His style reached maturity in the mid-1950s and 1960s, when he began using brighter, more vibrant colors to further enhance the suggestion of movement through optical illusion. Much of his work is housed in the Vasarely Museum at the Château de Gourdes, in southern France, and in the Vasarely Museum in Budapest, Hungary. In 1970 he established the Vasarely Foundation, which in 1976 took up quarters near Aix-en-Provence, France, in a building that he designed.

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