1950
oil
canvas
From the collection of Museum of Modern Art
Dominant colour
Untitled is a 1950 oil by Victor Vasarely, a Op Art work, held at Museum of Modern Art.
This painting is all sharp black shapes on a white background. The forms overlap in weird angles—some look like triangles, others like stretched rectangles. There’s no clear picture of anything real, just flat colors and clean edges. The black areas aren’t all the same shade—they shift slightly, making some parts look deeper. It’s like the artist cut out shapes and glued them down, but with paint instead. Look up chiaroscuro next to see how light and shadow create depth in other ways.
Victor Vasarely (French: ; born Vásárhelyi Győző, Hungarian: ; 9 April 1906 – 15 March 1997) was a Hungarian-French artist, who is widely accepted as a "grandfather" and leader of the Op art movement.
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