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Attika +
1957-1960

Medium
oil and black ballpoint pen on canvas

Measurements
120.0 × 100.4 cm

Credit Line
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Felton Bequest, 1967

Gallery location
Contemporary Art gallery
Level 3, NGV International

 

About this work

Victor Vasarely was first employed as a graphic designer in the advertising industry before specialising in painting and sculpture devoted to optical illusions. In his own words: ‘Objectively speaking, what I paint is a two-dimensional composition of forms-colours or a multi-dimensional structure, in which intuition, science and technique all have a share, containing visual stimuli and intended for one of the multiple plastic functions of the modern city … Having convinced myself of the vanity of tirelessly representing – as it is done – the named or unnamed archetypes of nature, I wish to create the beings of a world apart, that of pure plastics: genesis, birth, abundance, complexification, perfecting, functionalisation of plastic structures.’

Artwork Details

Inscription
inscribed in red ballpoint pen l.c.: Vasarely
inscribed in black ballpoint pen on reverse u.l.: Vaserely / ATTIKA + / 1957-60 / 100 x 120

Accession Number
1790-5

Department
International Painting