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Optical Art

One of the hidden jewels of Budapest is the Vasarely Museum! His works are everywhere around the world's museums but here you can find 300 superb paintings.

Victor Vasarely is the "father" of Op' Art. Optical Art is a mathematically-oriented form of art, which uses repetition of simple forms and colors to create vibrating effects, moiré patterns, an exaggerated sense of depth, foreground-background confusion, and other visual effects. Another good example (although he's not an abstract artist) is M.C.Escher.

Here is an extremely interesting site on the mathematics of Escher's work.

And some pictures of Vasarely's paintings in Budapest:

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