Victor Vasarely

Many consider Victor Vasarely to be the founder of Op Art. After studying in Budapest, he began his career working as a graphic designer and poster artist, where he made his first Op work. During the 1940s he exhibited at the Galerie Denise René in Paris with works of cubist, futuristic and even surrealist styles. Afterwards, Vasarely admitted he felt he was on the wrong track. From 1947 onwards he began to develop a purely geometric abstract art. Vasarely spent time in South America, completing a large ceramic mural commission for the University of Caracas in Venezuela in 1954. During this time he also made and exhibited Kinetic art alongside Jesús Rafael Soto and Jean Tinguely at the Galerie Denise René and elsewhere. In 1970 the first museum dedicated to his works opened in France.