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Victor Vasarely
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Early Days:
Vasarely was born in Pecs and grew up in Piestany (then Postyen) and Budapest where in 1925 he took up medical studies at Budapest University. In 1927 he abandoned medicine to learn traditional academic painting at the private Podolini-Volkmann Academy. In 1928/1929, he enrolled at Sandor Bortnyik's muhely (lit. "Workshop", in existence until 1938), then widely recognized as the center of Bauhaus studies in Budapest. Cash-strapped, the muhely could not offer all that the Bauhaus offered. Instead it concentrated on applied graphic art and typographical design.
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Career:
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, Andre and Jean-Pierre. In Budapest, he worked for a ball-bearings company in accounting and designing advertising posters.
Victor Vasarely became a graphics designer and a poster artist during the 1930’s who combined patterns and organic images with each other.
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