
Winter Suite (Light Blue with Light Blue), OP Art Etching by Anuszkiewicz
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Richard AnuszkiewiczWinter Suite (Light Blue with Light Blue), OP Art Etching by Anuszkiewicz1979
1979
About the Item
- Creator:Richard Anuszkiewicz (1930, American)
- Creation Year:1979
- Dimensions:Height: 31.5 in (80.01 cm)Width: 30 in (76.2 cm)
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- Framing:Framing Options Available
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- Gallery Location:Long Island City, NY
- Reference Number:Seller: RO17961stDibs: LU46612405862
Richard Anuszkiewicz
“I’m interested,” Richard Anuszkiewicz (1930–2020) once said, “in making something romantic out of a very, very mechanistic geometry.” Anuszkiewicz sought to achieve this romance through works juxtaposing vibrant colors in geometric configurations. The perceptual effects he created helped define the American Op art movement.
Anuszkiewicz studied color theory at Yale under Josef Albers and was greatly influenced by Albers’s approach. “The image in my work has always been determined by what I wanted the color to do,” Anuszkiewicz explained in a 1974 catalogue. “Color function becomes my subject matter, and its performance is my painting.”
He departed from his mentor, however, in the pulsating, illusory qualities he gave his work. One of his most famous paintings, Deep Magenta Square (1978), although similar in composition to Albers’s “Homage to the Square” series, is distinctly Op art in the way the striations surrounding the central square seem to vibrate and jump off the canvas.
Anuszkiewicz spent his entire career exploring optical effects through the manipulation of line and color, producing spectacular and timeless pieces of art. “Working with basic ideas will always be exciting,” he said in 1977. “And if a color or form is visually exciting in any profound sense, it will be that way in 10 or 20 years from now.”
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