Richard AnuszkiewiczGrey Tinted Rainbow1991
1991

About the Item
- Creator:Richard Anuszkiewicz (1930, American)
- Creation Year:1991
- Dimensions:Height: 30 in (76.2 cm)Width: 50.25 in (127.64 cm)
- More Editions & Sizes:Edition of 40Price: $6,200
- Medium:
- Movement & Style:
- Period:
- Framing:Framing Options Available
- Condition:
- Gallery Location:Santa Fe, NM
- Reference Number:1stDibs: LU12812042302
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.”
Browse a variety of paintings and prints by Richard Anuszkiewicz at 1stDibs.
- ShippingRetrieving quote...Ships From: Santa Fe, NM
- Return Policy
A return for this item may be initiated within 3 days of delivery.
- Rainbow Love Mountain Ranch, New MexicoBy Polly ApfelbaumLocated in Santa Fe, NMEdition on hand is #24/30. Printed at the Tamarind Institute, this 2007 twelve-color lithograph features Polly Apfelbaum's signature repeating flowe...Category
1990s Op Art Abstract Prints
MaterialsLithograph
- Proem 3By Matt MageeLocated in Santa Fe, NMEdition of 15Category
21st Century and Contemporary Minimalist Abstract Prints
MaterialsLithograph
- Collection 1By Matt MageeLocated in Santa Fe, NMEdition of 15Category
21st Century and Contemporary Minimalist Abstract Prints
MaterialsLithograph
- Proem 1By Matt MageeLocated in Santa Fe, NMEdition of 15Category
21st Century and Contemporary Minimalist Abstract Prints
MaterialsLithograph
- Collection 2By Matt MageeLocated in Santa Fe, NMEdition of 15Category
21st Century and Contemporary Minimalist Abstract Prints
MaterialsLithograph
- Black Flowers October 15By Donald SultanLocated in Santa Fe, NMBlack Flowers October 15 is a 1996 lithograph by Donald Sultan. Black Flowers October 15 is from an edition of 20. Black Flowers October 15 is signed by D...Category
1990s Abstract Abstract Prints
MaterialsLithograph
- Agam Silkscreen Mod Judaica Lithograph Hand Signed Israeli Kinetic Op Art PrintBy Yaacov AgamLocated in Surfside, FLYaacov Agam Israeli (b. 1928) Hand signed, not individually numbered but from edition of 180. I can include a copy of the title sheet with the edition size and his signature if you request. sheet: 13.5 X 13.5 inches Some of these works have beautiful Hebrew calligraphy and mod imagery, animals, children and such that are not usually found in his work. This is a masterpiece of bold, graphic, mod design. Along with Reuven Rubin and Menashe Kadishman he is among Israel's best known artists internationally. Biographical info: The son of a rabbi, Yaacov Agam can trace his ancestry back six generations to the founder of the Chabad movement in Judaism. in 1946, he entered the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design in Jerusalem. Studying with Mordecai Ardon, a former student at the Weimar Bauhaus. Yaakov Agam has been associated h with “abstract” artists, “hard edge” artists, and artists such as Josef Albers and Max Bill. Others find in Agam’s work an indebtedness to the masters of the Bauhaus. Agam’s approach to art, being conceptual in nature, has been likened to Marcel Duchamp’s, who expressed the need to put art “at the service of the spirit.” And, because of Agam’s employment of color and motion in his art, he has been compared to Alexander Calder, the artist who put sculpture into motion. (Motion is not an end, but a means for Agam. Calder’s mobiles are structures that are fixed, revolving at the whim of the wind. In a work by Agam, the viewer must intervene.) Agam has also been classified as an “op art” artist because he excels in playing with our visual sensitivities. Agam went to Zurich to study with Johannes Itten at the Kunstgewerbeschule. There, he met Frank Lloyd Wright and Siegfried Giedion, whose ideas on the element of time in art and architecture impressed him. In 1955, Galerie Denise René hosted a major group exhibition in connection with Vasarely's painting experiments with movement. in addition to art by Vasarely, it included works by Yaacov Agam, Pol Bury, Soto and Jean Tinguely, among others. Most Americans were first introduced to Vasarely by the groundbreaking exhibition, "The Responsive Eye," at New York's Museum of Modern Art in 1965. Josef Albers, Richard Anuszkiewicz. The show confirmed Vasarely's international reputation as the father of Op art. Agam has sought to express his ideas in a non-static form of art. In his abstract Kinetic works, which range from paintings and graphics to sculptural installations and building facades. Agam continually seeks to explore new possibilities in form and color and to involve the viewer in all aspects of the artistic process. Thus, for the past 40 years, Yaacov Agam’s pioneering ideas have impacted developments in art, (painting, monoprint, lithograph and agamograph) architecture, theatre, and public sculpture. Reflecting both his Israeli Jewish...Category
1980s Op Art Abstract Prints
MaterialsLithograph, Screen
- Agam Silkscreen Mod Judaica Lithograph Hand Signed Israeli Kinetic Op Art PrintBy Yaacov AgamLocated in Surfside, FLYaacov Agam Israeli (b. 1928) Hand signed, not individually numbered but from edition of 180. I can include a copy of the title sheet with the edition size and his signature if you r...Category
1980s Op Art Abstract Prints
MaterialsLithograph, Screen
- Agam Silkscreen Mod Judaica Lithograph Hand Signed Israeli Kinetic Op Art PrintBy Yaacov AgamLocated in Surfside, FLYaacov Agam Israeli (b. 1928) Hand signed, not individually numbered but from edition of 180. I can include a copy of the title sheet with the edition size and his signature if you request. sheet: 13.5 X 13.5 inches Some of these works have beautiful Hebrew calligraphy and mod imagery, animals, children and such that are not usually found in his work. This is a masterpiece of bold, graphic, mod design. Along with Reuven Rubin and Menashe Kadishman he is among Israel's best known artists internationally. Biographical info: The son of a rabbi, Yaacov Agam can trace his ancestry back six generations to the founder of the Chabad movement in Judaism. in 1946, he entered the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design in Jerusalem. Studying with Mordecai Ardon, a former student at the Weimar Bauhaus. Yaakov Agam has been associated h with “abstract” artists, “hard edge” artists, and artists such as Josef Albers and Max Bill. Others find in Agam’s work an indebtedness to the masters of the Bauhaus. Agam’s approach to art, being conceptual in nature, has been likened to Marcel Duchamp’s, who expressed the need to put art “at the service of the spirit.” And, because of Agam’s employment of color and motion in his art, he has been compared to Alexander Calder, the artist who put sculpture into motion. (Motion is not an end, but a means for Agam. Calder’s mobiles are structures that are fixed, revolving at the whim of the wind. In a work by Agam, the viewer must intervene.) Agam has also been classified as an “op art” artist because he excels in playing with our visual sensitivities. Agam went to Zurich to study with Johannes Itten at the Kunstgewerbeschule. There, he met Frank Lloyd Wright and Siegfried Giedion, whose ideas on the element of time in art and architecture impressed him. In 1955, Galerie Denise René hosted a major group exhibition in connection with Vasarely's painting experiments with movement. in addition to art by Vasarely, it included works by Yaacov Agam, Pol Bury, Soto and Jean Tinguely, among others. Most Americans were first introduced to Vasarely by the groundbreaking exhibition, "The Responsive Eye," at New York's Museum of Modern Art in 1965. Josef Albers, Richard Anuszkiewicz. The show confirmed Vasarely's international reputation as the father of Op art. Agam has sought to express his ideas in a non-static form of art. In his abstract Kinetic works, which range from paintings and graphics to sculptural installations and building facades. Agam continually seeks to explore new possibilities in form and color and to involve the viewer in all aspects of the artistic process. Thus, for the past 40 years, Yaacov Agam’s pioneering ideas have impacted developments in art, (painting, monoprint, lithograph and agamograph) architecture, theatre, and public sculpture. Reflecting both his Israeli Jewish...Category
1980s Op Art Abstract Prints
MaterialsLithograph, Screen
- Agam Silkscreen Mod Judaica Lithograph Hand Signed Israeli Kinetic Op Art PrintBy Yaacov AgamLocated in Surfside, FLYaacov Agam Israeli (b. 1928) Hand signed, not individually numbered but from edition of 180. I can include a copy of the title sheet with the edition size and his signature if you r...Category
1980s Op Art Abstract Prints
MaterialsLithograph, Screen
- Agam Silkscreen Mod Judaica Lithograph Hand Signed Israeli Kinetic Op Art PrintBy Yaacov AgamLocated in Surfside, FLYaacov Agam Israeli (b. 1928) Hand signed, not individually numbered but from edition of 180. I can include a copy of the title sheet with the edition size and his signature if you r...Category
1980s Op Art Abstract Prints
MaterialsLithograph, Screen
- Agam Silkscreen Mod Judaica Lithograph Hand Signed Israeli Kinetic Op Art PrintBy Yaacov AgamLocated in Surfside, FLYaacov Agam Israeli (b. 1928) Hand signed, not individually numbered but from edition of 180. I can include a copy of the title sheet with the edition size and his signature if you r...Category
1980s Op Art Abstract Prints
MaterialsLithograph, Screen
Recently Viewed
View AllThe 1stDibs Promise
Learn MoreExpertly Vetted Sellers
Confidence at Checkout
Price-Match Guarantee
Exceptional Support
Buyer Protection
Trusted Global Delivery