Yaacov Agam More Prints
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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20th Century Op Art Yaacov Agam More Prints
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20th Century Op Art Yaacov Agam More Prints
Screen, Lenticular
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Yaacov Agam More Prints
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Yaacov Agam More Prints
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Late 20th Century Kinetic Yaacov Agam More Prints
Silk, Screen, Color
1980s Kinetic Yaacov Agam More Prints
Paper, Color
1980s Op Art Yaacov Agam More Prints
Lithograph, Screen
1980s Op Art Yaacov Agam More Prints
Lithograph, Screen
1980s Op Art Yaacov Agam More Prints
Lithograph, Screen
1980s Op Art Yaacov Agam More Prints
Lithograph, Screen
1980s Op Art Yaacov Agam More Prints
Lithograph, Screen
1980s Op Art Yaacov Agam More Prints
Lithograph, Screen
1980s Op Art Yaacov Agam More Prints
Lithograph, Screen
1980s Op Art Yaacov Agam More Prints
Lithograph, Screen
1980s Op Art Yaacov Agam More Prints
Lithograph, Screen
1980s Op Art Yaacov Agam More Prints
Lithograph, Screen
1980s Op Art Yaacov Agam More Prints
Lithograph, Screen
20th Century Op Art Yaacov Agam More Prints
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20th Century Abstract Yaacov Agam More Prints
Lithograph
20th Century Abstract Yaacov Agam More Prints
Lithograph
20th Century Abstract Yaacov Agam More Prints
Lithograph
20th Century Abstract Yaacov Agam More Prints
Lithograph
20th Century Abstract Yaacov Agam More Prints
Lithograph
20th Century Abstract Yaacov Agam More Prints
Lithograph
1970s Pop Art Yaacov Agam More Prints
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21st Century and Contemporary Yaacov Agam More Prints
Intaglio, Paper, Oil, Acrylic
2010s Contemporary Yaacov Agam More Prints
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1970s Abstract Yaacov Agam More Prints
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2010s Contemporary Yaacov Agam More Prints
Silk, Mixed Media, Screen, Cotton
2010s Kinetic Yaacov Agam More Prints
Aluminum
1970s Op Art Yaacov Agam More Prints
Offset, Lithograph
Early 2000s Contemporary Yaacov Agam More Prints
Wood, Permanent Marker, Screen, Mixed Media
1990s Abstract Expressionist Yaacov Agam More Prints
Rice Paper, Archival Paper, Silk, Screen, Permanent Marker, Board, Mixed...
1960s Color-Field Yaacov Agam More Prints
Canvas, Board, Screen
1970s Op Art Yaacov Agam More Prints
Paper, Screen
1980s Contemporary Yaacov Agam More Prints
Lithograph, Screen
20th Century Op Art Yaacov Agam More Prints
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1980s Op Art Yaacov Agam More Prints
Lithograph, Screen
1970s Kinetic Yaacov Agam More Prints
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1980s Yaacov Agam More Prints
Lithograph
1970s Abstract Yaacov Agam More Prints
Lithograph
1970s Kinetic Yaacov Agam More Prints
Color, Plexiglass
1980s Kinetic Yaacov Agam More Prints
Color