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book on Victor Vasarely]] Victor Vasarely (Vásárhelyi Győző) ( 9 April , 1906 , Pécs - 15 March , 1997 , Paris ) was a French Hungarian -born artist often acclaimed as the father of Op-art . Working as a graphic artist in the 1930s he created what is considered the first Op-art piece — ''Zebra'', consisting of curving black and white stripes, indicating the direction his work would take. Over the next two decades, Vasarely developed his style of Geometric Abstract Art . His work won his international renown and he received several prestigious prizes. He died in Paris in 1997. LIFE AND WORK Born on where in 1925 he took up medical studies at Budapest University . In 1927 he abandoned medicine to learn traditional academic painting at the private Polini-Volkmann academy. In 1928 / 1929 , he enrolled at Sándor Bortnyik's Műhely (lit. "workshop", in existence until 1938), then widely recognized as the center of Bauhaus studies in Budapest. Cash-strapped, the műhely could not offer the whole range of its illustrious Bauhaus model, and concentrated on applied graphic art and typographic design. Vasarely’s excellence in drawing was quickly noticed.In 1929 he painted his ''Blue Study'' and ''Green Study''. In 1930 he married his fellow student Claire Spinner (1908-1990). Together they had two sons. In Budapest, he worked for a ball-bearings company in accounting and designing advertising posters. ]] Vasarely left Hungary and settled in Paris in 1930 working as a graphic artist and as a creative consultant at the advertising agencies Havas, Draeger and Devambez (1930-1935). His interactions with other artists during this time were limited. He played with the idea of opening up an institution modeled after Sándor Bortnyik Műhely ’s and developed some teaching material for it. Having lived mostly in cheap hotels, he settled in 1942 / 1944 in Saint-Céré in the Lot ''département''. After the Second World War , he opened an Atelier in Arcuei , a suburb some 10 kilometers from the center of Paris (in the Val-de-Marne '' Département '' of the Île-de-France ). In 1961 he finally settled in Annet-sur-Marne (in the Seine-et-Marne ''département''). Over the next three decades, Vasarely developed his style of geometric abstract art, working in various materials but using a minimal number of forms and colours:
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On , a museum housed in a distinct structure specially designed by Vasarely. It was inaugurated in 1976 by French president Georges Pompidou . In that year, his large kinematic object ''Georges Pompidou'' was installed in the Centre Pompidou in Paris and the Vasarely Museum located at his birth place in Pécs , Hungary, was established with a large donation of works by Vasarely. In 1982 154 specially created Serigraphs were taken into space by the cosmonaut Jean-Loup Chrétien on board the French-Soviet spacecraft Salyut 7 and later sold for the benefit of UNESCO . In 1987 , the second Hungarian Vasarely museum was established in Zichy Palace in Budapest with more than 400 works. He died in Paris on 15 March , 1997 . THE VASARELY FOUNDATION What has happened to the Vasarely Foundation, a non-profit making institution, acknowledged of public utility in 1971, conceived and financed by Claire and Victor Vasarely ? This institution was doted with inalienable and alienable donations for over more than twenty five years within the framework of the French legislation on foundations, a legislation which is very hard to please and yet so permeable. The Vasarely Foundation was managed from 1981 to 1993 by the Aix-Marseille III University of Law, Economics and Sciences, today the Paul Cézanne University. November 27, 1990, the date of the death of Claire Vasarely, the wife of Victor Vasarely, marks the beginning of long and difficult legal proceedings which ended on May 11, 2005 by the final sentencing of Charles Debbasch, the University's former Dean and the former president of the institution, before the Court of Appeals of Aix-en-Provence, France. Mrs Michèle-Catherine Taburno-Vasarely, the founders' daughter-in-law, who dealt with the interests of the Vasarely heirs (André and Jean-Pierre), and the former president of the Foundation from 1995 to 1997, took possession in 1997, the year of Victor Vasarely's death, of almost 500 original inalienable works of art from the Gordes didactic Museum (closed since 1996), of 798 inalienable studies on Art and the City from the Aix-en-Provence architectonic Centre and around 18000 alienable multiples. Formerly inalienable works have been expatriated and sold off. The Vasarely estate owes the tax administration several million euros. The Foundation's Board of Directors refuses to acknowledge the reality of its status. The Vasarely Foundation has been bled and is nothing but an empty shell. At several months from the centinary of Victor Vasarely's birth and the thirtieth anniversary of the opening of the Aix-en-Provence architectonic Centre (2006), the Association for the Defence and Promotion of Vasarely’s work presided by Pierre Vasarely, Victor Vasarely’s grand-son and legatee, is struggling to recover the work taken from the Vasarely Foundation. AWARDS
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