Richard Anuszkiewicz Art
“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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1970s Op Art Richard Anuszkiewicz Art
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1970s Abstract Geometric Richard Anuszkiewicz Art
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1970s Op Art Richard Anuszkiewicz Art
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1980s Op Art Richard Anuszkiewicz Art
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Late 20th Century Post-War Richard Anuszkiewicz Art
Acrylic
1970s Op Art Richard Anuszkiewicz Art
Etching, Aquatint, Intaglio
1970s Op Art Richard Anuszkiewicz Art
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1960s Op Art Richard Anuszkiewicz Art
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1970s Op Art Richard Anuszkiewicz Art
Aquatint
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1990s Op Art Richard Anuszkiewicz Art
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1980s Abstract Geometric Richard Anuszkiewicz Art
Masonite, Screen
1980s Op Art Richard Anuszkiewicz Art
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1960s Op Art Richard Anuszkiewicz Art
Acrylic
1970s Op Art Richard Anuszkiewicz Art
Etching, Aquatint, Intaglio
1970s Op Art Richard Anuszkiewicz Art
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1970s Op Art Richard Anuszkiewicz Art
Etching, Aquatint, Intaglio
1970s Op Art Richard Anuszkiewicz Art
Etching, Aquatint
20th Century Post-War Richard Anuszkiewicz Art
Wood, Acrylic
1950s American Modern Richard Anuszkiewicz Art
Paper, Watercolor
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1970s Op Art Richard Anuszkiewicz Art
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1970s Op Art Richard Anuszkiewicz Art
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1960s Op Art Richard Anuszkiewicz Art
Mixed Media, Acrylic, Canvas
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Late 20th Century Op Art Richard Anuszkiewicz Art
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1990s Op Art Richard Anuszkiewicz Art
Lithograph, Screen, Mixed Media, Pencil
1970s Op Art Richard Anuszkiewicz Art
Etching, Aquatint, Intaglio
1970s Op Art Richard Anuszkiewicz Art
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1970s Abstract Geometric Richard Anuszkiewicz Art
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1970s Op Art Richard Anuszkiewicz Art
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1970s Op Art Richard Anuszkiewicz Art
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1970s Op Art Richard Anuszkiewicz Art
Metal, Enamel
1950s Op Art Richard Anuszkiewicz Art
Watercolor, Gouache, Mixed Media
1970s Op Art Richard Anuszkiewicz Art
Paper, Mixed Media, Lithograph, Offset, Ink, Board
1990s Op Art Richard Anuszkiewicz Art
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1970s Op Art Richard Anuszkiewicz Art
Etching, Aquatint, Intaglio
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1960s Op Art Richard Anuszkiewicz Art
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1970s Op Art Richard Anuszkiewicz Art
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20th Century Abstract Geometric Richard Anuszkiewicz Art
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1990s Op Art Richard Anuszkiewicz Art
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20th Century Abstract Geometric Richard Anuszkiewicz Art
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1970s Op Art Richard Anuszkiewicz Art
Canvas, Acrylic
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- 1stDibs ExpertApril 5, 2022After the success of his “Sol” series in the 1960s, Richard Anuszkiewicz began to focus on his “Centered Square” designs in the mid-1970s. He used interacting colors to change the perception of the art in the eye of the viewer. You can shop a selection of Richard Anuszkiewicz pieces from some of the world’s top art dealers on 1stDibs.