Taïmyr
About this artwork
This geometric painting was composed by Vasarely to create a sense of movement. As the eye of the viewer follows the fragmented diamond shapes around the circle in the centre, the forms seem to spin, like the sails of a windmill. By the mid-1950s Vasarely was producing paintings, in which asymmetrical, geometric patterns, repeated with varying degrees of frequency and distortion, produce extraordinary, optical effects of depth and movement. Vasarely often gave his paintings titles of geographical origin; Taïmyr is the name of a lake and river in the far north of Russia.
Updated before 2020
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title:Taïmyr
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date created:1958
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materials:Oil on canvas
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measurements:162.00 x 130.00 cm; Framed: 166.40 x 133.40 x 4.10 cm
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credit line:Purchased 1973
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accession number:GMA 1279
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artwork photographed by:Antonia Reeve
Victor Vasarely
Victor Vasarely
Born in Hungary, Victor Vasarely studied in Budapest and settled in Paris in 1930. He worked as a commercial artist in 1940, during which time he became interested in visual effects and illusions, extending his exploration of this to painting in 1943. Around 1947, Vasarely began painting the...