Abstraction--Surface Tension #2

Abstraction--Surface Tension #2

György KepesWW-1940-M039870
1940·Gelatin silver print·14 × 11 1/8" (35.6 × 28.3 cm)

Catalogue

Year
1940
Dimensions
14 × 11 1/8" (35.6 × 28.3 cm)

Artist

György Kepes
György Kepes

Photography

György Kepes was a Hungarian-American artist and designer whose practice spanned photography, painting, light installation, and graphic design. A key figure in postwar American modernism, he developed a systematic approach to visual organization rooted in Gestalt psychology and the integration of art with architecture and urban space. His work emphasized the constructive potential of light, color, and geometric form as vehicles for both aesthetic and social purpose. Kepes founded the Center for Advanced Visual Studies at MIT, establishing a laboratory model for interdisciplinary art practice that influenced generations of artists and designers.

Lőrinci, Hungary

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Year
1940
Dimensions
14 × 11 1/8" (35.6 × 28.3 cm)
Watts ID
WW-1940-M039870

Source

Source
moma
Status
verified

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