Victor Vasarely
French-Hungarian painter and printmaker (1906–1997)
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He made flat surfaces appear to pulse, warp, and breathe. Vasarely turned geometry into optical illusion decades before anyone called it Op art, and an entire movement claimed him as its starting point.
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Born Vásárhelyi Győző in Hungary in 1906, he later became Victor Vasarely in France, where he spent most of his working life. In 1937 he created Zebra, a piece some point to as one of the earliest examples of what would become Op art—though the term wouldn't arrive for years. He kept pushing geometry and optics into new territory, building a body of work that made him widely accepted as a grandfather and leader of the movement. He died in March 1997, leaving behind a visual language that turned static planes into kinetic experiences.
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