Yaacov Agam Rainbow
Late 20th Century Abstract Geometric Abstract Prints
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1980s Kinetic Abstract Sculptures
Plywood, Paper
1990s Abstract Prints
Mixed Media
1970s Abstract Abstract Prints
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1960s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Photographic Paper, Silver Gelatin
Mid-20th Century American Realist Still-life Prints
Lithograph
1920s Modern Nude Prints
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Early 2000s Abstract Geometric Abstract Prints
C Print
Late 20th Century Abstract Expressionist Abstract Prints
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Early 2000s Op Art Abstract Prints
Lenticular
Late 20th Century Post-Impressionist Figurative Prints
Lithograph
Late 20th Century Abstract Abstract Prints
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1980s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Prints
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1970s Pop Art Abstract Prints
Lithograph, Color
1970s Pop Art Nude Prints
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1960s Abstract Prints
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Late 20th Century Abstract Expressionist Abstract Prints
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Late 20th Century Op Art Abstract Prints
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Vintage 1980s Posters
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Vintage 1980s French Kinetic Contemporary Art
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1980s Op Art Abstract Prints
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1980s Op Art Abstract Prints
1980s Op Art Abstract Prints
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1980s Op Art Abstract Prints
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Mid-20th Century Mid-Century Modern Prints
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1990s Prints and Multiples
Lithograph
1980s Op Art Abstract Prints
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1980s Abstract Abstract Prints
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1980s Op Art Abstract Prints
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Yaacov Agam for sale on 1stDibs
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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