Agam Menorah
1980s Abstract Geometric Abstract Prints
Screen
1960s Sculptures
Brass
1970s Modern Sculptures
Brass
21st Century and Contemporary French Modern Contemporary Art
Plastic, Paper
Vintage 1970s Mobiles and Kinetic Sculptures
Metal
Late 20th Century Abstract Abstract Prints
Paper, Screen
Late 20th Century Abstract Abstract Prints
Paper, Screen
Late 20th Century Abstract Abstract Prints
Paper, Screen
1980s Modern Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Lithograph
People Also Browsed
1980s Kinetic Abstract Sculptures
Plywood, Paper
Mid-20th Century Brazilian Mid-Century Modern Animal Sculptures
Lucite
21st Century and Contemporary Figurative Prints
Lithograph
Mid-20th Century American Mid-Century Modern Collectible Jewelry
Brass
Late 20th Century Israeli Animal Sculptures
Bronze
20th Century Dining Room Tables
Wrought Iron
Early 2000s Contemporary Still-life Prints
Screen
Vintage 1960s Israeli Mid-Century Modern Ashtrays
Brass
Vintage 1970s Israeli Mid-Century Modern Barware
Brass
1980s Abstract Mixed Media
Laid Paper, Mixed Media
20th Century Israeli Mid-Century Modern Candlesticks
Brass
Late 20th Century Contemporary Paintings
Wood, Acrylic
2010s Prints and Multiples
Screen
Vintage 1970s French Mid-Century Modern Prints
Paper
Mid-20th Century Israeli Mid-Century Modern Ashtrays
Brass
Vintage 1960s Israeli Mid-Century Modern Ashtrays
Brass
Recent Sales
20th Century Op Art More Prints
Other Medium
1980s Op Art Abstract Prints
Screen
1970s Kinetic Abstract Sculptures
Screen
Vintage 1980s Posters
Paper
20th Century Prints
Paper
Vintage 1980s Prints
Paper
Vintage 1980s Prints
Paper
Late 20th Century Abstract Abstract Prints
Paper, Screen
Late 20th Century Abstract Abstract Prints
Paper, Screen
Late 20th Century Abstract Abstract Prints
Paper, Screen
Vintage 1980s American Post-Modern Abstract Sculptures
Metal
Vintage 1980s Israeli Kinetic Religious Items
Gold Plate, Brass
1980s Op Art Abstract Sculptures
Metal, Gold
20th Century Contemporary Abstract Sculptures
Metal
1980s Op Art Abstract Sculptures
Metal, Gold
1960s Kinetic Abstract Sculptures
Bronze
1980s Op Art Abstract Prints
Screen
Late 20th Century Op Art Mixed Media
Plywood
1980s Op Art Abstract Sculptures
Gold, Metal
Vintage 1970s French Prints
Late 20th Century Israeli Religious Items
Silver
1970s Kinetic Sculptures
Brass
1980s Op Art Abstract Sculptures
Gold, Copper, Metal
1980s Op Art Abstract Prints
Screen
1990s Op Art Abstract Prints
Screen
1910s Aesthetic Movement Mixed Media
Plaster
21st Century and Contemporary Kinetic Figurative Sculptures
Metal, Gold Leaf
Vintage 1980s European Mid-Century Modern Abstract Sculptures
Vintage 1980s Israeli Modern Mobiles and Kinetic Sculptures
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Influenced by his upbringing in Judaism as well as the teachings of the Bauhaus, Yaacov Agam is a pioneer of kinetic art as well as the Op art movement and is often credited with introducing geometric abstraction to his home country of Israel.
Born in Rishon LeZion, Palestine — now part of Israel — the son of a rabbi, Agam found that the spiritual world had a major influence on his art practice, as did the sand dunes he grew up watching as they constantly shifted with the wind. This perpetual movement would inform his work, whereby riveting, prismatic compositions that transform from different perspectives, patterns that generate optical effects and sculptures that move with a passing breeze all reflect the gradual changes in nature.
Agam studied with Israeli painter Mordecai Ardon at the Bezalel School of Art in Jerusalem in the 1940s before traveling to Zurich where he trained with Swiss Expressionist painter Johannes Itten and was inspired by the abstract work of Russian painter Wassily Kandinsky.
One of the innovative techniques Agam developed was the Agamograph, which uses lenticular printing so that multiple images, which are revealed as the viewer moves around the piece, can be seen on a single work. His art has regularly involved the spectator as a participant, whether it’s the 1972–74 room-size kinetic installation he created for the Elysée Palace that’s now in the Centre Pompidou in which a gleaming abstract sculpture is surrounded on all sides by polychromatic lines or it’s public art like the 1986 Fire and Water Fountain in Tel Aviv with circles of vibrant panels that offer varying colors from every angle.
In 2018, the Yaacov Agam Museum of Art opened in Rishon LeZion, showcasing six decades of Agam’s influential work that engages with perception through color, shape and form, from paintings, prints and installations to new experiments in interactive digital art.
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