Soeglet 1983

I imagine Victor Vasarely made this picture, *Soeglet*, with something mechanical, like an airbrush, because there is little evidence of the hand. The geometric forms are precise, and the color is flat. I wonder what Vasarely was thinking when he made this? It is so calculated, but also has an atmospheric quality. The pale pinks, purples, and blues recede into the distance as the grid twists and curves. It’s like a kind of forced perspective. I think of Buckminster Fuller and his geodesic domes, or maybe even the Op Art of Bridget Riley. The more I look, the more I see this as a kind of conversation between artists, each pushing the boundaries of perception and abstraction in their own way.