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
Subjects (general)
Nonrepresentational Art
Subjects (specific)
angles (geometric concepts) flat (form attributes) geometric abstraction stripes
Movements
Op art