Quami 1950

Victor Vasarely’s painting presents bold black, red, and blue shapes densely arranged on the square canvas. I love to imagine him in the studio, pushing and pulling those shapes, letting the painting emerge through trial, error, and intuition. I sympathize with the artist and wonder what it might have been like to create this. What might Vasarely have been thinking when he made it? Look at the blue; it’s almost like a pool of water. And those black shapes floating within seem to be in dialogue. The surface of the painting is so tactile, you can almost feel the push and pull of the brushstrokes and the texture of the paint itself. Vasarely was part of an ongoing conversation between artists, inspiring creativity. Painting is like embodied expression, which embraces ambiguity and uncertainty, allowing for multiple interpretations and meanings.