And the painting vibrates in the spectator's retina! This is the purpose of Op Art, a movement which intended to challenge Pop Art in the 1960s and whose founders are gradually disappearing. Last summer saw the Venezuelan Carlos Cruz-Diez, 95, a wonderful apostle of color, a patriarch adored by all and a Parisian by adoption (1923-2019). A few days ago, we learned of the death at 91 years of the Brazilian artist Abraham Palatnik, the precursor of kinetic art, who died in his adopted city of Rio, on May 9, victim of Covid-19. Now the New York scene is losing Richard Anuskiewicz.
Born in 1930 in Erie, Pennsylvania, to parents of Polish Jewish immigrants, Richard Anuskiewicz died at 89 years old, on May 19, 2020, in his city of Englewood in New Jersey where his workshop was held. American figure closely associated with MoMA in New York where he was curator in 1957, he was a pupil of Josef Albers, the eminent Bauhaus defector at the legendary Black Mountain College. Baptized
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