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Vasarely

British  
/ ˌvæsərˈɛlɪ /

noun

  1. Victor. 1908–97, French painter, born in Hungary; a leading exponent of op art

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That was 1948, and Vasarely has been returning to Gordes every summer since.

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"I am a chess fanatic," says Op Artist Victor Vasarely, a resident of Gordes in the South of France.

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Today Vasarely, 62, lives in an 18th century villa on the outskirts of Paris, where he draws up coded "scores" with pencil and ruler for ten assistants to transfer onto canvas.

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But what Vasarely did was to build on the somewhat dry ideas of the Bauhaus and suffuse them with new life�the life of shifting perspectives, vibrant color harmonies and weighted geometric shapes.

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Says Vasarely modestly: "It is an immense pleasure for the eye."

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