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Yaacov Agam More Art

Israeli, b. 1928

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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Artist: Yaacov Agam
Agam Silkscreen Judaica Kiddush Cup Signed Israeli Kinetic Op Art Sculpture
Agam Silkscreen Judaica Kiddush Cup Signed Israeli Kinetic Op Art Sculpture

Agam Silkscreen Judaica Kiddush Cup Signed Israeli Kinetic Op Art Sculpture

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Yaacov Agam Lithograph  "Tribute to Mondrian" 1975.
Yaacov Agam Lithograph  "Tribute to Mondrian" 1975.

Yaacov Agam Lithograph "Tribute to Mondrian" 1975.

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“Three Movements" Limited Edition Hand-Signed Serigraph by Yaacov Agam, Framed
“Three Movements" Limited Edition Hand-Signed Serigraph by Yaacov Agam, Framed

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AACOV AGAM — AMERICAN FLAG — 1976━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Work created to commemorate the bicentennial of the United States. TECHNIQUE: Silkscreen on mirror / Agamograph...

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Life (limited edition, hand signed and numbered Op Art First Day Cover (framed)
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    The style of art that Yaacov Agam created has varied over the course of his career. He 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. Some of his famous works include Double Metamorphosis, Star of David, Night Constellation and Grand Oeil Cosmique. Explore an assortment of Yaacov Agam art on 1stDibs.