Getulio Alviani is the undisputed protagonist of the story of the programmed and Gestalt art that took hold between the 60s and 70s, thanks also to the critical and theoretical support of Giulio Carlo Argan. Its vibrating textured surfaces made in 1960 immediately attracted the attention of the public: the treatment of the aluminum and steel tops gave life to structures of changing images depending on the refraction of light. According to Alviani, the visual construction, developing according to relationships of elementary geometry, becomes an expression of an idea of a rational ordering of reality, including social reality. His research which, between 1959–60, led him to create works in aluminum or steel, called Vibrating Textured Surfaces, operating the metal material with an electric cutter with a precision determined by preordained programming or working manually same material with a mechanical lathe (in the case of Discs), obtaining at the end of the procedure a surface that changes continuously according to the positions of the viewer’s visual angles and the light incidence, thus generating always different images. In 1962, he took part in the “Arte Programmata” exhibition in Venice, Rome, Düsseldorf, Leverkusen and in the “Zero” exhibition in the Galerie Diogenes Berlin. He had his first solo exhibition abroad at the Galerie Denise Renè in Paris in 1963 followed by a second one, in the same year, at the Museum Morsbroich, Leverkusen. In 1964, he was invited to the Venice Biennale and exhibited in the “Nouvelles Tendences” exhibition at the Louvre Palace in Paris. Alviani wants to order the things of the world through logic and rationality. Geometry, accuracy and essentiality are for the artist the essential constants of the ideation. The basis is the desire to simplify the chaos that pervades the things of the world, through logic and rationality. Unlike many authors and designers who joined in groups, Alviani has always worked alone, placing at the base of his research that technical and scientific foundations already postulated by the experiences of historical constructivism, the Bauhaus and concrete art.
Untitled - Optical silkscreen print by GetulioAlviani signed and numbered
By Getulio Alviani
Located in Napoli, IT
"Untitled" work by Getulio Alviani of programmed and kinetic art, which plays on the visual perception of lines and colors, Signed and numbered (Exemplar 140/180) in pencil on the fr...
Screen
$593
H 39.38 in W 30.71 in
Olympia : Sky and Sun (Op Art Spiral) - Original Screen Print, 1971
By Victor Vasarely
Located in Paris, IDF
Victor Vasarely Olympia : Sky and Sun (Op art spiral), 1971 Original 15 colors screenprint Printed signature in the plate On paper 100 x 78 cm (c. 40 x 31 in) REFERENCES : Catalog...
Screen
$2,995
H 36 in W 36 in D 0.5 in
Richard Anuszkiewicz - Soft Satellite Red, historic Op Art Silkscreen signed/N
By Richard Anuszkiewicz
Located in New York, NY
Richard Anuszkiewicz Soft Satellite Red, 1981 Silkscreen on wove paper Signed, dated and numbered 53 from the edition of 100 in pencil by the artist on the front. Bears label from Me...
Screen
$1,757
H 15.75 in W 11.42 in D 0.04 in
Lattice - Screen Print by V. Vasarely - 1980s
By Victor Vasarely
Located in Roma, IT
Lattice is a contemporary artwork realized by Victor Vasarely (1906-1997) in 1978. Silkscreen in colors on wove paper. Hand signed on the lower right. Includes frame.
Screen
$950
H 34 in W 34 in
Sky Light XXIII, Geometric Abstract OP Art Screenprint by Evelyn B. Johnson
By Evelyn B. Johnson
Located in Long Island City, NY
This abstract screenprint was created in 1981 by American Optical artist Evelyn B. Johnson. It is signed and numbered 17/25 in pencil, and the plate size is 25.5 x 25.5 inches. It is...
Screen
Ikon, Op Art Geometric Abstract Screenprint by Roy Ahlgren
By Roy Ahlgren
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Roy Ahlgren, American (1927 - 2011) Title: Ikon Year: 1976 Medium: Screenprint, signed and numbered in pencil Image Size: 17 x 17 inches Size: 20 x 20 in. (50.8 x 50.8 cm)
Screen
Rivotril, 1990
By Victor Vasarely
Located in Palo Alto, CA
Created in 1990, this original color serigraph is hand signed by Victor Vasarely (Pécs, 1906 - Paris, 1997) in pencil in the lower right margin. Numbered 270/300, this piece was prin...
Screen
$2,800
H 41.5 in W 15.5 in
Ravenia, 3-D OP Art Screenprint Collage by Anne Youkeles
By Anne Youkeles
Located in Long Island City, NY
Ravenia by Anne Youkeles, Austrian (1920) Date: circa 1971 3D screenprint collage, signed, numbered and titled in pencil lower right Edition of 8/100 Size: 39.25 x 13.25 in. (99.7 x ...
Screen
$5,500
H 38 in W 46 in
Richard Anuszkiewicz - Soft Lime, Signed/N 1970s geometric abstraction Op Art
By Richard Anuszkiewicz
Located in New York, NY
Richard Anuszkiewicz Soft Lime, 1976 8 Color silkscreen on Lenox 100% Cotton paper 38 × 46 inches Pencil signed and numbered 41/75 on the front; bears printers blind stamp from NYIT (New York Institute of Technology) Unframed We have not seen another example of this gorgeous mid century silkscreen...
Pencil, Screen
$32,661
H 40.95 in W 29.14 in
"Couleur Additive Perseus" by Carlos Cruz-Diez, 21st Century, Optical Art
By Carlos Cruz-Diez
Located in Köln, DE
"Couleur Additive Perseus" has a stunning appearance and an optical effect, which catches the beholder's attention from the very first time. Carlos Cruz-Diez from Venezuela was one o...
Screen
Solitude, OP Art Seascape Screenprint by Roy Ahlgren
By Roy Ahlgren
Located in Long Island City, NY
Solitude Roy Ahlgren, American (1927–2011) Date: 1987 Screenprint, signed, numbered, dated, and titled in pencil Edition of 95 Image Size: 18 x 26 inches Size: 22 x 30 in. (55.88 x 7...
Screen
$2,400
H 30 in W 30 in
Victor Vasarely Screen Print Abstract, Geometric Squares Cubes Hexagon
By Victor Vasarely
Located in Detroit, MI
Victor Vasarely born in 1906 was a Hungarian-French artist, who is widely accepted as a "grandfather" and leader of the Op Art movement. Op Art is a form of abstract art that gives the illusion of movement by the precise use of pattern and color, or in which conflicting patterns emerge and overlap. Victor Vasarely and Brigit Riley are its most famous exponents. In its visual balancing act of color and movement from a flat plane to developed continuous flow “Untitled” is a complex arrangement of squares and colors that visually expand and contract. It is one of Vasarely’s most successful Op Art abstract works. The piece is signed on the lower right and number 20/150 on the lower left. The print is behind glass and matted. Vasarely was born in Pecs and grew up in Slovakia and Budapest, where in 1925, he took up medical studies. Abandoning medicine he turned to traditional academic painting at the private Podolini-Volkmann Academy. In 1928/1929, he enrolled at Sandor Bortnyik’s private art school widely recognized as Budapest's centre of Bauhaus studies. His studies concentrated on applied graphic art and typographical design. In 1929, he painted his Blue Study and Green Study. In 1930, he married his fellow student Claire Spinner (1908–1990). Together they had two sons, Andre and Jean-Pierre. Vasarely became a graphic designer and a poster artist during the 1930s combining patterns and organic images with each other. Vasarely utilized geometric shapes and colorful graphics, the artist created compelling illusions of spatial depth, as seen in his work Vega-Nor (1969). Vasarely’s method of painting borrowed from a range of influences, including Bauhaus design principles, Wassily Kandinsky, and Constructivism. In the late 1920s, Vasarely enrolled at the Muhely Academy in Budapest, where the syllabus was largely based on Walter Gropius’s Bauhaus school in Germany. After settling in Paris in 1930, Vasarely worked in advertising agencies to support himself as a graphic artist while creating many works including Zebra (1937), which is considered by some to be one of the earliest examples of Op Art. The artist experimented in a style based in Surrealism and Abstract Expressionism during the 1940s, before arriving at his hallmark checkerboard...
Paper, Screen
$213
H 19.69 in W 27.56 in D 0.04 in
Fuchsine Composition - Original Screen Print by Victor Debach - 1970s
By Victor Debach
Located in Roma, IT
Hand signed and numbered. Edition of 100 prints. On headed paper.
Screen
Getulio Alviani - Hand-Signed Serigraphy, 1993
By Getulio Alviani
Located in Varese, IT
Getulio Alviani (1939 - 2018) - Hand-Signed Serigraphy, 1993 Additional Information: Material: Serigraphy on cardboard Edited in 1993 Limited edition ...
Cardboard
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H 19.5 in W 19.5 in
Vintage Italian OP Art Silkscreen Print Getulio Alviani Lithograph Kinetic Red
By Getulio Alviani
Located in Surfside, FL
Screenprint in red/orange Hand signed and numbered from small edition of 50 Circa 1968-1972 Getulio Alviani (1939 – 2018) was an Italian painter based...
Lithograph, Screen