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“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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Artist: Richard Anuszkiewicz
Soft Lime, Signed/N 1970s geometric abstraction by renowned Op Artist 38" x 46"
By Richard Anuszkiewicz
Located in New York, NY
Richard Anuszkiewicz Soft Lime, 1976 8 Color silkscreen on Lenox 100% Cotton paper 38 × 48 inches Pencil signed and numbered 41/75 on the front; bears printers blind stamp from NYIT ...
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1970s Op Art Richard Anuszkiewicz More Art

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ANUSZKIEWICZ, monograph (hand signed and inscribed by Richard Anuszkiewicz)
By Richard Anuszkiewicz
Located in New York, NY
Richard Anuszkiewicz ANUSZKIEWICZ by Karl Lunde (hand signed and inscribed by Richard Anuszkiewicz), 1977 Hardback monograph with dust jacket (hand signed and inscribed by Richard An...
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1970s Op Art Richard Anuszkiewicz More Art

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Paper, Mixed Media, Lithograph, Offset, Ink, Board

Op Art Bowl for Hirshhorn Museum
By Richard Anuszkiewicz
Located in New York, NY
Richard Anuszkiewicz Op Art Bowl for Hirshhorn Museum, 1976 Glazed Enamel on Metal Bowl. Artists Signature Fired in Plate Anuszkiewicz' signature fired ont...
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1970s Op Art Richard Anuszkiewicz More Art

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Metal, Enamel

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