Page 29 - Studio Interantional - May 1967
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Works of the 1930s—top left, an ink study of 1939; bottom left, Etude
1935; top right, Zebra, an ink drawing of 1936; bottom right, Harlequin
of 1935
Of this period Vasarely has written : 'It was in my Two-dimensional
graphic studies executed between 1933 and 1938 that Optical
Kineticism finally appeared in a vigorous and decisive way.
Checkerboards, Harlequins, Zebras, Tigers, Prisoners and Martians
moved, not by mimetism but by the aggressiveness with which their
structures struck the retina.'
