Richard Anuszkiewicz
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Richard Anuszkiewicz (born May 23, 1930, Erie, Pennsylvania) is one of the world's most eminent living artists. He is considered one of the founders and foremost exponents of Op Art, a movement that dominated modern art during the late 60's and early 70's. Victor Vasarely in Switzerland and Bridget Riley in England were his primary international counterparts. Life magazine called him "The New Wizard of Op." His works have been exhibited in many important exhibitions, including the Venice Biennale, the Florence Biennale, and the Documenta, and are in the permanent collections of many of the world's leading modern art museums (see below for a partial list).
His last name is pronounced: "Aah-Nuss-Kay-Vitch" with the accent on the third syllable.
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[edit] Education
Anuszkiewicz trained at the Cleveland Institute of Art in Cleveland, Ohio (1948 – 1953), and then with Josef Albers at the Yale University School of Art and Architecture in New Haven, Connecticut (1953 – 1955).Was mentaly ill
[edit] Style
Considered a major force in the Op Art movement, Anuszkiewicz is concerned with the optical changes that occur when different high-intensity colors are applied to the same geometric configurations. Most of his work comprises visual investigations of formal structural and colour effects, many of them nested square forms similar to the work of his mentor Josef Albers. In his landmark series, "Homage to the Square," Albers experimented with juxtapositions of color, and Anuszkiewicz developed these concepts to an unprecedented degree. Conceptual Art and geometric grids succeeded Op Art as the dominant movements of modern art during the 1970's, but Anuszkiewicz has continued to produce works in the Op Art genre over the last few decades. A catalogue raisonné of Anuszkiewicz's paintings is currently being drafted under the auspices of the contemporary art critic John Spike and will be published in 2008.
[edit] Selected Museums Holding Works by Anuszkiewicz
Albright-Knox Art Gallery
Art Institute of Chicago
Brooklyn Museum
Chicago Museum of Contemporary Art
Cleveland Museum of Art
Columbus Museum of Art
Denver Museum of Art
Detroit Institute of Arts
Fogg Museum of Art
Guggenheim Museum
Hokkaido Museum of Modern Art
Metropolitan Museum of Art
MOMA
Philadelphia Museum of Art
Wadsworth Atheneum
Whitney Museum of Art
[edit] Grants and Awards
1953 Pulitzer Traveling Fellowship
1963 Charles of the Ritz Oil Painting Award
1964 The Silvermine Guild Award for Oil Painting
1977 Cleveland Arts Prize
1980 Hassam Fund Purchase Award
1988 Hassam Fund Purchase Award
1994 New York State Art Teachers' Association Award
1995 Emil and Dines Carlson Award
1996 New Jersey Pride Award
1997 Richard Florsheim Fund Grant
2000 Lee Krasner Award
2005 Lorenzo di Medici Medal, awarded at the Florence Biennale
