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Richard Anuszkiewicz

American

“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.”

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Winter Suite (Light Blue with Light Blue), OP Art Etching by Anuszkiewicz
By Richard Anuszkiewicz
Located in Long Island City, NY
Considered a major force in the op art movement, Anuszkiewicz is concerned with the optical changes that occur when different high-intensity colors are applied...
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1970s Op Art Richard Anuszkiewicz

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Etching, Aquatint, Intaglio

1920 League of Women Voters, by Richard Anuszkiewicz
By Richard Anuszkiewicz
Located in Long Island City, NY
The 50th Anniversary of the League of Women Voters Screenprint Poster from 1970, designed by Richard Anuszkiewicz (1930 - 2020) printed in 1969, unsigned. Richard Anuszkiewicz’s use ...
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1960s Op Art Richard Anuszkiewicz

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Screen

Grey Tinted Rainbow
By Richard Anuszkiewicz
Located in Santa Fe, NM
Edition on hand is HC 2/3. Printed at Graphicstudio in Florida, this combination print by Richard Anuszkiewicz was printed with a set of two other editions in 1991. This work is comp...
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1990s Op Art Richard Anuszkiewicz

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Lithograph, Screen

Red to Green Portal
By Richard Anuszkiewicz
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Red to Green Portal Aquatint, 1979 Signed and dated in pencil lower right (see photo) Edition: 95 (84/95), see photo Provenance: U.S. Representative James A. Leach Condition: Excelle...
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1970s Op Art Richard Anuszkiewicz

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Aquatint

Inward Eye, #5 OP Art Serigraph by Anuszkiewicz
By Richard Anuszkiewicz
Located in Long Island City, NY
A limited-edition serigraph from the Inward Eye portfolio. The work bears the publisher's stamp verso and is unsigned from the edition of 500. Artist: Richard Anuszkiewicz, American...
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1970s Op Art Richard Anuszkiewicz

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Screen

Inward Eye, #9 OP Art Screenprint by Anuszkiewicz
By Richard Anuszkiewicz
Located in Long Island City, NY
Inward Eye 9 Richard Anuszkiewicz, American (1930–2020) Date: 1970 Screenprint, signed and numbered in pencil Edition of 34/100 Size: 25.5 x 19.75 in. (64.77 x 50.17 cm) Printer: Dom...
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1970s Op Art Richard Anuszkiewicz

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Screen

Inward Eye #3, OP Art Silkscreen by Anuszkiewicz
By Richard Anuszkiewicz
Located in Long Island City, NY
A limited edition serigraph from the Inward Eye portfolio. The work bears the publishers stamp verso and is unsigned from the edition of 500. Artist: Richard Anuszkiewicz, American ...
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1970s Op Art Richard Anuszkiewicz

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Screen

Inward Eye #8, OP Art Silkscreen by Anuszkiewicz
By Richard Anuszkiewicz
Located in Long Island City, NY
A limited edition serigraph from the Inward Eye portfolio. The work bears the publishers stamp verso and is unsigned from the edition of 500. Artist: Richard Anuszkiewicz, American ...
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1970s Op Art Richard Anuszkiewicz

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Screen

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