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Richard Anuszkiewicz BIOGRAPHY
1930 Erie, Pennsylvania - 2020 Englewood, New Jersey. Known for: Optical art illusion, collage, graphics.
With a name synonymous with the Op Art movement, Richard Anuskiewicz first achieved international fame when he was included in a 1965 survey of "optical art" at the Museum of Modern Art in New York.... Read full biography
With a name synonymous with the Op Art movement, Richard Anuskiewicz first achieved international fame when he was included in a 1965 survey of "optical art" at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. Today he is recognized as one of the foremost colorists in American art, creating huge large-scale... Read full biography
With a name synonymous with the Op Art movement, Richard Anuskiewicz first achieved international fame when he was included in a 1965 survey of "optical art" at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. Today he is recognized as one of the foremost colorists in American art, creating huge large-scale canvases. He was born in Erie, Pennsylvania and trained at the Cleveland Institute of Art from 1948 to 1953 and then with Josef Albers at Yale University where he earned an M.F.A. degree in 1955.... Read full biography
With a name synonymous with the Op Art movement, Richard Anuskiewicz first achieved international fame when he was included in a 1965 survey of "optical art" at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. Today he is recognized as one of the foremost colorists in American art, creating huge large-scale canvases. He was born in Erie, Pennsylvania and trained at the Cleveland Institute of Art from 1948 to 1953 and then with Josef Albers at Yale University where he earned an M.F.A. degree in 1955. Albers stirred his interest in the effects of color on perception but Anuszkiewicz did not actively pursue this matter until the 1960s when he worked in repeated geometric patterns, emanating in wave-like shapes from the center of the canvas. In the... Read full biography
With a name synonymous with the Op Art movement, Richard Anuskiewicz first achieved international fame when he was included in a 1965 survey of "optical art" at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. Today he is recognized as one of the foremost colorists in American art, creating huge large-scale canvases. He was born in Erie, Pennsylvania and trained at the Cleveland Institute of Art from 1948 to 1953 and then with Josef Albers at Yale University where he earned an M.F.A. degree in 1955. Albers stirred his interest in the effects of color on perception but Anuszkiewicz did not actively pursue this matter until the 1960s when he worked in repeated geometric patterns, emanating in wave-like shapes from the center of the canvas. In the 1970s, much of his work looked like computer printouts and were intended to investigate the effects of juxtaposed ful... Read full biography
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With a name synonymous with the Op Art movement, Richard Anuskiewicz first achieved international fame when he was included in a 1965 survey of "optical art" at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. Today he is recognized as one of the foremost colorists in American art, creating huge large-scale canvases.
He was born in Erie, Pennsylvania and trained at the Cleveland Institute of Art from 1948 to 1953 and then with Josef Albers at Yale University where he earned an M.F.A. degree in 1955. Albers stirred his interest in the effects of color on perception but Anuszkiewicz did not actively pursue this matter until the 1960s when he worked in repeated geometric patterns, emanating in wave-like shapes from the center...But wait, there's more...
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