Artist: Yaacov Agam
Title: Message of Peace
Year created: 1988
Medium: Silkscreen, signed and numbered in pencil
Edition: HC 9/30, Signed & Numbered Hors d’ Commerce Limited Edition Silkscreen
Height (inches): 41-1/2
Width (inches): 31
Depth (inches): 1
Signed by the artist
Signed Area: front
This piece is framed.
Includes a certificate of authenticity.
Description of piece:
Yaakov Agam created this visually mesmerizing artwork, Message of Peace, to commemorate the 1988 Olympics. A highly detailed silkscreen, it is one of 22 fine art prints comprising the Official Arts Portfolio of the XXIIVth Olympiad, and is a fine example of Op Art (also referred to as Optical Art).
Hand-signed by the Artist, in pencil, this piece is a rare numbered Hors d’ Commerce print; and the work also bears the edition number, in pencil, numbered 9 from the very small production of only 30 HC prints.
The work comes custom framed and ready for display in a classic black gallery-style frame, with framed dimensions measuring 41-1/2” in height x 31” width x 1” depth. The work is accompanied by a certificate of authenticity.
Artist bio:
Op art (also referred to as Optical Art) pioneer Yaacov Agam’s abstract artworks— which range from painting, sculpture, drawing, and ceramics, to stained glass and etching— incorporate light, sound, or viewer participation. Agam first trained as an artist in Jerusalem, going on to combine formalist art with kabbalistic mysticism, and he is credited with introducing geometric abstraction to Israeli art. Agam’s best known series of works, comprised of painted strips that appear to shift and oscillate as viewers alter their points of view, would become known as “Agamographs.” He has also produced public commissions, including the world’s largest menorah, installed in New York City, and Star of Peace for Ben-Gurion university that fused the five-pointed star of Islam with the six-pointed Star of David. Agam met and was influenced by the Bauhaus artist and teacher Johannes Itten in Zurich, and also cites Wassily Kandinsky’s abstraction as an influence on his practice.
Op Art was an international art movement during the 1960s, which presented a new form of abstraction that played with the viewer’s visual perception, with images that seemed to move, swell, or change forms. Fashion brands soon popularized the bold patterns of Op Art through their “Mod” designs. Op Art continues to be influential today, inspiring both artists and neuroscientists to take a closer look at how the eye processes lines, forms, and colors.
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