Quami 1950

This is *Quami*, by Victor Vasarely, and it's a trip into seeing how shapes and colors play together, like they’re doing a dance right on the canvas. Check out how the blue seems to curve around these black shapes. I love the texture he’s created with the paint, it’s not trying to hide itself. It’s there, present, each brushstroke adding to the energy. Look at the way the red sits next to the blue, it vibrates, doesn’t it? And that black—it’s not just a background, it’s pushing forward, defining the space. Vasarely is really doing something here, thinking about how we see and what we expect from a painting. It reminds me a bit of Sophie Taeuber-Arp, but where she used collage, Vasarely’s using paint to build up these playful, geometric spaces. It's like he's saying, "Hey, art doesn't have to be one thing," it can be an experiment, a question, a visual puzzle that keeps changing every time you look at it.