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Blake's Eye (from The Inward Eye Series)
Artist
Richard Anuszkiewicz
(American, 1930-)
Date1970
Mediumscreenprint
Dimensionsimage: 25 1/2 × 19 9/16 in. (64.8 × 49.7 cm)
sheet: 25 3/4 × 19 7/8 in. (65.4 × 50.5 cm)
mat: 30 × 24 in. (76.2 × 61 cm)
sheet: 25 3/4 × 19 7/8 in. (65.4 × 50.5 cm)
mat: 30 × 24 in. (76.2 × 61 cm)
Credit LineBequest of Charlotte Collins from the Charles and Charlotte Collins Collection
Exhibition History"A Passion for Collecting: Prints of the 1960s and '70s from the Collins Collection," KIA Galleries 2&5 (Nov. 13, 2010 - Jan. 2, 2011).
"Drawn to Abstraction," Charles H. MacNider Museum of Art, Mason City, IA (June 24 - August 20, 2016).
"Drawn to Abstraction," Sardoni Art Gallery, Wilkes University, Wilkes-Barre, PA (August 25 - November 1, 2020).
Label TextAnuszkiewicz built on Josef Albers’ color theory, which demonstrated that our perception of one color is affected by adjacent colors—making certain colors seem to change hue, recede, or vibrate as a result of different color combinations. Anuszkiewicz pushed this further to explore optical effects of form and color upon the eye, becoming a leader of the Op Art movement. His juxtapositions of intense color create the illusion of movement—a rhythm of shape emerging from the energy of color.
