Victor vasarely biography budapest
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Vasarely’s bio
1906 Born on 9 April in Pécs, as Győző Csiszár. His mother, Anna Csiszár, originated in Trnava (Slovakia), his father, Győző (Viktor) Lajos Vásárhelyi, moved to Budapest from Timişoara (Romania) and worked as headwaiter. Vasarely spends some of his childhood in Piešťany (Slovakia).
1908 The family moves to Budapest. He is given his father’s surname: from that time forward he is named Győző Vásárhelyi. He lives in a milieu of catering and theatre: his aunt, Vilma Vásárhelyi is an actress.
1921−1925 Vásárhelyi earns a qualification in French and German business correspondence at a high school for commerce.
1922 Takes evening nude drawing classes at Artúr Podolini-Volkmann’s Free School of Drawing and Painting, where he learns to prepare paint and frames, and to prime canvas.
1925 Works as an assistant accountant at the “Labor” Pharmaceutical and Chemical Works; this is where he receives his first graphic design commission. T
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Summary of Victor Vasarely
Victor Vasarely provided us with some of the most distinctive images and optical effects in 20th-century art. From his days as a commercial graphic designer in 1930s-40s Paris to his final decades developing and marketing what he hoped would become a new universal language for art and architectural design, Vasarely steered a unique course, combining virtuosic technical noggrannhet with a scientific awareness of optical and geometrical effects. He is best known for his grid-like paintings and sculptures of the 1960s onwards, which play with the reader's sense of visual form eller gestalt by creating illusory, flickering effects of depth, perspective, and motion. In making the act of looking one of their primary subjects, these works speak to a quintessentially modern concern with the difference between what we can see and what fryst vatten really there.
Accomplishments
- Vasarely was perhaps the first modern artist to realize that Kinetic Art did not have to move. Instead he c
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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
[edit]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 r