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Victor Vasarely
"The art of tomorrow will be a commun treasure within which art no longer exists."
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The publication of a postal stamp is often a homage paid by a nation to a place, an event, a remarkable cause or a character which count. The painters and other artists do not escape from this rule. Some are however "forgotten" of postal art. Here, gathered below (French or foreign), emitted stamps (206) or simple studies of stamp (224) in homage to the artists represented on our website. The first French stamp was emitted in 1849, England preceded us by ten years. There is often a share of voyage in this small form of shape paper. The stamp circulates, sails, flies away, it makes dream, then dream a little. M.C.
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Des suites d'une longue maladie, le peintre français d’origine hongroise Victor Vasarely s’éteint le mercredi 19 mars 1997, il avait près de 90 ans. Il repose au cimetière d’Annet-sur-Marne (Seine-et-Marne). La tombe de l’artiste porte une épitaphe : « Ce n’est pas le nom de l’artiste qui doit briller, mais son oeuvre. Vasarely. 1965 ». La Fondation d’Aix-en-Provence, qui porte son nom, symbolisait, à ses yeux, l’oeuvre de sa vie. Voici, déposer en hommage à sa mémoire, un crocus et sa couleur presque hypnotique.
"Le manque de moyens, l’incompréhension voire l’hostilité des architectes, le souci omniprésent du rentable m’ont empêché de réaliser mon rêve. Je voulais apporter un peu de bonheur à l’architecture." - Victor Vasarely
"Grands et petits écrans m’ont paru représenter les véhicules idéaux de la fonction complète lumino-cinétique ; instrument social en outre par son énorme pouvoir de diffusion de l’information, de la connaissance et de la culture, la ciné-technique offre à tous les arts la conquête des dimensions supérieures." - Victor Vasarely
"L'art pour l'art ne mène à rien. Si vous vous engagez dans cette voie, vous êtes condamné à la bohème et vous finirez alcoolique ou syphilitique, mais peintre, certainement pas!" - Victor Vasarely
"Le moment crucial de chaque artiste est sa transmutation «d'être récepteur» en «être émetteur»: là, il devient créateur, être rarissime découvrant son rôle qui consiste à donner. " - Victor Vasarely
"Si l'idée de l'oeuvre plastique résidait jusqu'ici dans une démarche artisanale et dans le mythe de la "pièce unique", elle se retrouve aujourd'hui dans la conception d'une possibilité de recréation, de multiplication et d'expansion." - Victor Vasarely
"L’art de demain sera trésor commun ou ne sera pas." - Victor Vasarely
Notes of biography
Victor Vasarely was born in Pecs (Hungary). He began studying medicine, left these courses and joined the fine art (1927-1929), then the Bauhaus of Budapest where he became the pupil of Sandor Bortnyik. His first personal exhibition was organized in Budapest in 1930, this same year he settled down in Paris.
During a first period, Vasarely created a plastic alphabet whose infinite combinations had to give birth to an "intellectual and methodical art". He gradually gave up the applied arts and was interested in an abstract pictorial creation. Between 1935 and 1947, Vasarel painted with a more classical representation, portraits, still lives and landscapes. Later he created a set of works about Belle-Isle-en-Mer and the artist wanted to show the internal geometry in the nature. He wrote the "Yellow Manifesto” in 1955 in which he defined the kineticArt. The compositions were more and more elaborated, compositions where geometrical elements were united together, fitted together, switched around, to get closer to the cellular structure.
In 1965, Victor Vasarely participated to the exhibition "Responsive Eye" (New York) wich dedicated the optical Art (Op Art). The man was interested in the physics, in the architecture, in the industry and wanted his universal language. In 1976, he created his foundation in Aix-en-Provence, and drew a building that concretized his conception of the art in the town. Vasarely set up a contemporary art center and a meeting and search lavatory for artists, architects and engineers. He has been celebrated in the biggest museums of the world.
Victor Vasarely died in 1997 in Annet-sur-Marne (France).
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Some were created in lithographic technic, most are simple offset reproductions. They are many those who like collecting these rectangles of paper, monochrome or in games of colours, in matt paper or brilliant, with many words or almost dumb.
We are happy also to be able to greet, by this pages, mythical galleries as those of Denise René, Louis Carré, Claude Bernard, Berheim Jeune, Maeght, Pierre Loeb and others.
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*« Vasarely », 4 Vol., Marcel Joray, Ed. du Griffon, Neuchâtel, 1965-1980*« Victor Vasarely », catalogue raisonné des Estampes 1949-1991, Pedro Benavides et Michele Vasarely, Ed. Vasarely Estate, Ed. 2018.*« Victor Vasarely », catalogue raisonné des Multiples, Oeuvres spaciales et remarquables, Pedro Benavides et Michele Vasarely, Ed. Vasarely Estate, Ed. 2018. All the complete worksBibliographic track and more
To read about the artist :
- « Vasarely, 50 ans de création », Olympic Museum, Lausanne, 1996
- « Vasarely », Fondation Juan March, Madrid, 2000
- « Vasarely, parcours 1938-1980 », Demeures du Nord, Lille, 2004
- « Vasarely », R.C. Morgan, Naples Museum of Art, G. Braziller, N.Y., 2005
- « Vasarely 1906-1997 : La pure vision », Magdalena Holzhey, Ed. Taschen, 2005
- « Vasarely », Julio Le Parc et autres, Ed. Silvana, 2013
- « V. Vasarely : De l'oeuvre peint à l'oeuvre architecturé », J.-P. Ameline, Ed. Hermann, 2
- « La Fondation Vasarely », collectif, Ed. Beaux Arts Magazine, nov. 2015
- « V. Vasarely, multiplicité », F. Bauer et collectif, Fage Ed., 2016
- « Notes brutes », Victor Vasarely, Ed. Hermann, 2016
To read from the artist :
- « Entretiens avec l'artiste », Jean-Louis Ferrier, Ed. Belfond, Paris 1969
- « Nous sommes à l’aube d’un nouveau style », In « Opus Int.78 », G. Fall 1980
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Stamp by Victor Vasarely
The publication of a postal stamp is often a homage paid by a nation to a place, an event, a remarkable cause or a character which count. The painters and other artists do not escape from this rule. Some are however "forgotten" of postal art. Here, gathered below (French or foreign), emitted stamps (206) or simple studies of stamp (224) in homage to the artists represented on our website. The first French stamp was emitted in 1849, England preceded us by ten years. There is often a share of voyage in this small form of shape paper. The stamp circulates, sails, flies away, it makes dream, then dream a little. M.C.
When the stamp is really emitted, the artist name is preceded of an asterisk (*). It is certain that we do not know each stamp emitted for such or such artist; do not hesitate with us to make known them!
Discover all the stamps
+ Autograph
Artist's signed art card
Michelle Champetier Collection / This document is not for sale
+ Listen
Listen
+ Watch
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+ A tribute to...
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A tribute to Victor Vasarely
Sorry this section is only available in french for now.
Des suites d'une longue maladie, le peintre français d’origine hongroise Victor Vasarely s’éteint le mercredi 19 mars 1997, il avait près de 90 ans. Il repose au cimetière d’Annet-sur-Marne (Seine-et-Marne). La tombe de l’artiste porte une épitaphe : « Ce n’est pas le nom de l’artiste qui doit briller, mais son oeuvre. Vasarely. 1965 ». La Fondation d’Aix-en-Provence, qui porte son nom, symbolisait, à ses yeux, l’oeuvre de sa vie. Voici, déposer en hommage à sa mémoire, un crocus et sa couleur presque hypnotique.
"Le manque de moyens, l’incompréhension voire l’hostilité des architectes, le souci omniprésent du rentable m’ont empêché de réaliser mon rêve. Je voulais apporter un peu de bonheur à l’architecture." - Victor Vasarely
"Grands et petits écrans m’ont paru représenter les véhicules idéaux de la fonction complète lumino-cinétique ; instrument social en outre par son énorme pouvoir de diffusion de l’information, de la connaissance et de la culture, la ciné-technique offre à tous les arts la conquête des dimensions supérieures." - Victor Vasarely
"L'art pour l'art ne mène à rien. Si vous vous engagez dans cette voie, vous êtes condamné à la bohème et vous finirez alcoolique ou syphilitique, mais peintre, certainement pas!" - Victor Vasarely
"Le moment crucial de chaque artiste est sa transmutation «d'être récepteur» en «être émetteur»: là, il devient créateur, être rarissime découvrant son rôle qui consiste à donner. " - Victor Vasarely
"Si l'idée de l'oeuvre plastique résidait jusqu'ici dans une démarche artisanale et dans le mythe de la "pièce unique", elle se retrouve aujourd'hui dans la conception d'une possibilité de recréation, de multiplication et d'expansion." - Victor Vasarely
"L’art de demain sera trésor commun ou ne sera pas." - Victor Vasarely
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