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20th Century Abstract Abstract Prints
Lithograph
20th Century Abstract Abstract Prints
Lithograph
20th Century Abstract Abstract Prints
Lithograph
20th Century Abstract Abstract Prints
Lithograph
20th Century Abstract Abstract Prints
Lithograph
21st Century and Contemporary Folk Art Figurative Paintings
Terracotta, Acrylic, Wood Panel
Mid-20th Century Cuban Mid-Century Modern Paintings
Canvas, Masonite, Paint
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1930s American Modern Still-life Paintings
Canvas, Oil
Antique 17th Century Japanese Edo Lacquer
Copper, Gold
Vintage 1970s American Mid-Century Modern Prints
Paper
2010s German Black Forest Glass
Crystal
1930s American Modern Animal Prints
Lithograph
Late 20th Century Rustic Platters and Serveware
Copper
1970s Surrealist Prints and Multiples
Lithograph, Paper
Antique 18th Century Dutch Other Prints
Paper
1960s Modern Portrait Prints
Lithograph
Antique Mid-19th Century Japanese Ladders
Cedar
1910s Impressionist Interior Paintings
Oil
Mid-20th Century German Biedermeier Porcelain
Porcelain
2010s Indian Bauhaus North and South American Rugs
Silk
1970s Abstract Abstract Prints
Lithograph
1930s American Modern Figurative Paintings
Canvas, Oil
2010s German Black Forest Glass
Crystal
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Late 20th Century Op Art Abstract Prints
Screen
20th Century Contemporary Prints and Multiples
Silk
Vintage 1980s Posters
Paper
Vintage 1980s French Kinetic Contemporary Art
Paper
1980s Op Art Abstract Prints
Screen
1980s Op Art Abstract Prints
Screen
1970s More Art
Late 20th Century Abstract Geometric Abstract Prints
Screen
1980s Abstract Abstract Prints
Screen
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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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