Victor Vasarely

(Hungary, 1908-France,1997), Vásárhelyi Győző, renamed in France as Victor Vasarely, was the father of Op art. In the early 1930s he settled in Paris, where he worked as a graphic designer for advertising agencies. After a period of figurative expression, he opted for a constructive and geometric abstract art. Beginning his main artistic research: around geometric abstract art, which provides optical effects of movement. Vasarely called this development visual kinetics (cinétique plastique) and based on the perception of the viewer who, in the end, is considered the only creator of the work.
From 1948 he exhibited regularly at the Denise René gallery and began to create works of integration with space. In the 1960s he created two-dimensional works that visually suggest movement and three-dimensional works that require the viewer to move in order to produce a kinetic effect.