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Oblique (Vasarely)

Coordinates: 47°30′57″N 19°04′36″E / 47.5159°N 19.0768°E / 47.5159; 19.0768
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Oblique
Hungarian: Ferde
ArtistVictor Vasarely
Year1966 (1966)
Typecollage
Dimensions78 cm × 77 cm (31 in × 30 in)
LocationMuseum of Fine Arts, Budapest

Oblique (in Hungarian: Ferde) is a collage by Hungarian artist Victor Vasarely from 1966 to 1974.

Description

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Its dimensions are 78 x 77 centimeters. The picture is part of the collection of the Museum of Fine Arts in Budapest, Hungary.[1]

Analysis

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The Op art work is a grid of diagonal squares arranged to form a bright green central cross, whose colours fade and darken to black in successive rows away from it, overlaid with a pattern of uniformly dark blue roundels. Clipping of the shapes suggests overlapping layers, whose inferred edges interrupt the symmetry of the shapes with an elusive pattern.[2]

References

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  1. ^ "Szépművészeti Múzeum - Gyujtemenyi kereső angol - Artwork". www.szepmuveszeti.hu. Archived from the original on 2016-03-08.
  2. ^ "Oblique".

47°30′57″N 19°04′36″E / 47.5159°N 19.0768°E / 47.5159; 19.0768