Please click on the photographs for a larger version of the image. The musical annotation – colour, form, pattern, repetition – of these optical illusions is subsumed into an aura, an earthly divination of a transient ‘ planetary folklore’.Īll iPhone images © Dr Marcus Bunyan. Up close, their surface dis/integrates into swirls and ripples at a molecular level. From a distance their patterns are stable but optically disturbing. For example, look at the surface of paintings such as Lom-Lan 2 (1953, below) Marsan (1950 / 1955 / 1958, below) and Sonora(1973, below). Their meticulous, hand-crafted production.
Moma modern chess set plastic serial#
Unlike flat reproductions of these paintings in books, their serial reproduction, in these installation photographs you can see the ripples in the surface of these paintings. While both artists want to euthanise the authenticity of the hand, the feeling of he eye, and the beauty of the object through an investigation of concept, form and replication, when in the presence of these paintings, once, twice, three times, one cannot deny the intimacy of their construction. Through serialisation and the processes of re-creation, multiplication and expansion, “in pictures based on the mutual association between forms and colours, he claimed to perceive a ‘grammar’ of visual language, with which a set of basic forms making up a composition could be arranged into a system similar to musical notation… He regarded colour-forms as the cells or molecules out of which the universe was made.”ĭon’t believe all that is written on the can. There is a mesmerising flow to his compositions, even as they are supposedly set, fixed, in their mathematical complexity.Įven as Josef Albers explored colour in the belief that colours have no inherent emotional associations, so Vasarely investigated the formula for a “plastic alphabet”, a universal visual language based on the structural interplay of form and colour, a programmed language with an infinite number of form and colour variations. I noted how gestural his work is, even as it is geometric – emerging from his Gesture Drawings. What’s not too like.Ĭritically, I got to examine Vasarely’s work up close and personal, on a large scale. The reward was that I got to see an artists work I have always admired (I have a Vasarely serigraph in my collection), set in one of the most beautiful art galleries I have ever seen in my life. While on my European art trip in 2019, I ventured by tram to the deepest suburbs of Budapest to visit the Vasarely Museum on a Sunday – one of only three days the museum is open. Gouache, pencil, colour and white chalk on paper Graphic Period, 1929-1939) (installation view)
Prekinetic study (Preliminary study for the kinetic theory. Victor Vasarely (Hungarian-French, 1906-1997) Visited September 2019 posted November 2020
Prekinetic Study, Victor Vasarely Zilia, Vonal-Ket, William Seitz, William Seitz The responsive eye, Yllus, Zilia
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