“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.”
Browse a variety of paintings and prints by Richard Anuszkiewicz at 1stDibs.
Richard Anuszkiewicz Op Art "The Yellows" Screenprint Poster, 1970
By Richard Anuszkiewicz
Located in New Windsor, NY
Op Art screen print poster by Richard Anuszkiwicz, circa 1970. Signed in the print, Anuszkiewicz lower right corner. Titled, "The Yellows" distributed by Synergism, 601, Minnesota St...
Paper
$3,814
H 27 in W 19 in D 0.01 in
'The Beatles' Complete Set of Five Promotional Posters by Richard Avedon, 1967
By Richard Avedon
Located in Devon, GB
Complete set of five promotional posters Portraits 27 x 18¾ in. (68.5 x 47.5 cm.); Banner 14½ x 40 in. (37 x 101.5 cm.) Printed in England by Waterlow & Sons Limited for Stern Magazine, Germany Beatles manager Brian Epstein...
Linen, Paper
Color Silkscreen, Inward Eye #4, by Richard Anuszkiewicz
By Richard Anuszkiewicz
Located in San Francisco, CA
Color silkscreen on wove paper, from the edition of 500 published by Aquarius Press, printed by Edition Domberger, Stuttgart. Unsigned. Mounted on mat board and framed.
Paper
$272Sale Price|60% Off
H 29 in W 29 in D 2 in
Framed Geometric Op Art Lithograph in the Richard Anuszkiewicz's Style. C 1980s
By Richard Anuszkiewicz
Located in Miami, FL
Framed Geometric Op Art Lithograph in the Richard Anuszkiewicz's Style . Circa 1980s Features a geometric figure that successfully combines the 1980s Pastel...
Aluminum
$1,500
H 35.5 in W 29.75 in D 1.5 in
Artist Richard Anuszkiewicz Inward Eye #10 Op-Art Silkscreen Print, 1970, Signed
By Richard Anuszkiewicz
Located in St. Louis, MO
Richard Anuszkiewicz (1930-2020) Inward Eye #10 from the Inward Eye Series, 1970. Pronounced it ah-noo-SHKEV-ich. Silkscreen 25 19/20 × 19 3/4 inches Edition of 100, #56/100. Acid f...
Metal
$1,294
H 38.98 in W 27.56 in D 0.04 in
Original Vintage Poster Yellow Submarine The Beatles Sgt. Pepper Music Movie Art
Located in London, GB
Original vintage musical film poster issued by Hallmark for the animated movie Yellow Submarine starring Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band based on...
Paper
The Heiress Poster- Film Poster
Located in London, GB
Original British film poster from (1949) drama ,romance starring Olivia de Havilland and Montgomery Clift. This film was directed by William Wyler This poster would have been used ou...
Paper
$1,308Sale Price|20% Off
H 27.96 in W 22.25 in D 0.4 in
Original Concert Poster, American, Psychedelic Art, Berkeley Free Press, C.1970
Located in Hele, Devon, GB
This is a vintage concert poster. An American, original advertisement handbill for Country Joe & The Fish et al, published by the Berkeley Free Press, dated to 1970. A striking examp...
Glass, Paper
THE WIZARD OF OZ R1970s Hungarian Film Poster
Located in Bath, Somerset
We adore this original Hungarian 1970s re-release film poster for bonafide classic The Wizard of Oz. A beautiful and very rare poster. This vintage movie poster is sized 16 1/4 x ...
Paper
$316Sale Price|20% Off
H 24 in W 19 in D 0.07 in
1970s Original Charles Camoin Seascape Art Exhibiton Poster
By Charles Camoin
Located in Miami, FL
Original vintage poster from an exhibit of French painter, Charles Camoin, vivid orange color with beige highlights. Charles Camoin (French: 23 September 1879-20 May 1965) was a French Expressionist landscape painter associated with the Fauves. He painted a portrait of Matisse, which is in the permanent collection of the Pompidou Museum in Paris. Born in Marseille, France, Camoin met Henri...
Paper
Mid-Century Poster "Fine Food the Traditional Art of Denmark"
Located in Haddonfield, NJ
Charming Danish poster in wooden veneered frame.
Wood, Paper
$1,442Sale Price|20% Off
H 25.01 in W 18.9 in D 0.04 in
Decorative Art Screenprint, The Melvins, American, Rock Concert Poster, Signed
Located in Hele, Devon, GB
This is a decorative art screenprint for The Melvins. An American, rock concert poster signed by the artist, dated 2007. Of superb character and...
Paper
The Pink Panther 1970 Swedish Film Poster
Located in Bath, Somerset
We love this delightful original Swedish film poster for a cinematic release of The Pink Panther series in Sweden in the 1970s. With its playful illustration of the Pink Panther on a...
Paper