Victor Vassarelly

Victor Vassarelly, a Hungarian-born French painter, was one of the best known artists of the Op Art Movement. He was trained in the Bauhaus tradition in Budapest, but in 1930 he left Hungary to settle in Paris, France. By the 1940s his style of painting used geometric shapes with interesting color combinations. In the mid 1950's and 1960s, he began to use brighter colors to show movement within his painting. In this ways, his art became optical illusion.

Here are two of Vassarelly's paintings. You see how he creates the illusion of depth with his choice of color and with shadow.

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