Victor Vasarely

Victor Vasarely (1906 – 1997) was a French-Hungarian artist credited as the grandfather and leader of the Op Art movement. Utilizing geometric shapes and colourful graphics, the artist created compelling illusions of spatial depth. He used a method of painting borrowed from a range of influences, including Bauhaus design principles, Wassily Kandinsky, and Constructivism. Born in 1906, he briefly studied medicine, which added to the molecular appearance of his shape compositions, but after two years he dedicated himself to learn academic painting.