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Victor Vasarely was a
Hungarian-born painter who
became a French citizen in
1959. He was the main
originator and one of the
leading practitioners of Op
art. He settled in Paris in
1930, and for the next decade
worked chiefly as a
commercial artist,
particularly on the designing
of posters, showing a
keen interest in visual
tricks such as trompl'oeil
effects. From 1943 he turned
to painting and about four
years later he adopted the
method of geometrical
abstraction for which he was
best known.

Typically he created a
hallucinatory impression of
movement through visual
ambiguity, using alternating
positive-negative shapes
interrupted in such a way as
to suggest underlying
secondary shapes.

In 1970, Vasarely created a
Vasarely Museum in Gordes
and in 1976 formed a
Vasarely Foundation near
Aix-en-Provence. Another
Vasarely Museum is in his
Hungarian birthplace, Pecs,
and there is also a Vasarely
Centre in New York.