Richard Anuszkiewicz
Richard Anuszkiewicz (* May 23, 1930 in Erie, Pennsylvania, USA ) lives and works in New York City and is an American painter and printmaker. He is considered one of the greatest exponents of Op Art.
Life and work
Richard Anuszkiewicz studied from 1948 to 1953 at the Cleveland Institute of Art in Cleveland, Ohio ( Bachelor of Fine Arts) and then from 1953 to 1955 at Yale University School of Art and Architecture in New Haven, Connecticut with Josef Albers, where he received his Master of Fine Arts made .
In 1960 Anuszkiewicz had his first solo exhibition at the gallery The Contemporaries in New York. The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA ) in New York at that time acquired one of his paintings. He participated in the exhibition Geometric Abstraction in America of the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, in part (1962) and to Americans in 1963, at the MoMA (1963). Life magazine called him in the preview to the big op art exhibition The Responsive Eye at MoMA (1965), one of the new Wizard of Op. Anuszkiewicz took part in the Venice Biennale, Florence Biennale of 1968 and the documenta 4 in Kassel.
His works are part of the permanent collections of international museums, including the Albright -Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Cleveland Museum of Art, the Guggenheim Museum in New York, the Hokkaido Museum of Modern Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Philadelphia Museum of Art and the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York.
Anuszkiewicz deals in his work with the optical changes that occur when different colors of high intensity and the same geometrical configurations occur. Most of his works are visual examinations of formal structure and color effects. Anuszkiewicz developed in his art studies further, the Josef Albers, for example, in his series " Homage to the Square " began, where it experimented with juxtapositions of colors.