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Richard Joseph Anuszkiewicz (; May 23, 1930 – May 19, 2020) was an American painter, printmaker, and sculptor.




Life and work


Anuszkiewicz was born in Erie, Pennsylvania, the son of Victoria (Jankowski) and Adam Anuszkiewicz, who worked in a paper mill. His parents were Polish immigrants. He first studied art under Joseph Plavcan while still in high school, later describing him as his most significant influence. 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 in New Haven, Connecticut (1953–1955), where he earned his Masters of Fine Arts. While at Yale, Anuszkiewicz was roommates with a fellow abstract painter of Polish descent and a student of Albers, Julian Stanczak.
He was one of the leading figures in the Op Art movement during the late 1960s and throughout the 1970s. Victor Vasarely in France and Bridget Riley in England were his primary international counterparts. In 1964, Life magazine called him "one of the new wizards of Op". While reflecting on a New York City gallery show of Anuszkiewicz's from 2000, New York Times art critic Holland Cotter described Anuszkiewicz's paintings: "The drama — and that feels like the right word — is in the subtle chemistry of complementary colors, which makes the geometry glow as if light were leaking out from behind it." Anuszkiewicz exhibited at the Venice Biennale, Florence Biennale and Documenta, and his works are in permanent collections internationally. He was elected into the National Academy of Design in 1992 as an Associate member, and became a full member in 1994.




Style



Anuszkiewicz was 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 color effects, many of them nested square forms similar to the work of his mentor Josef Albers. In his series, "Homage to the Square", Albers experimented with juxtapositions of color, and Anuszkiewicz developed these concepts further. Anuszkiewicz continued to produce works in the Op Art style over the subsequent decades of his career.
In 1963, Anuszkiewicz summarized his approach to painting as: "My work is of an experimental nature and has centered on an investigation into the effects of complementary colors of full intensity when juxtaposed and the optical changes that occur as a result, and a study of the dynamic effect of the whole under changing conditions of light, and the effect of light on color."




Selected collections holding works


Akron Art Museum, Akron, Ohio
Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo
Art Institute of Chicago
Blanton Museum of Art, University of Texas
Boca Raton Museum of Art
Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh
Chicago Museum of Contemporary Art
Cleveland Museum of Art
Columbus Museum of Art
Currier Museum of Art
Denver Art Museum
Detroit Institute of Arts
Flint Institute of Arts
Fogg Museum, Harvard University
The Governor Nelson A. Rockefeller Empire State Plaza Art Collection
Hokkaido Museum of Modern Art
Honolulu Museum of Art
Indiana University Art Museum, Bloomington
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Museum of Contemporary Art Jacksonville
Museum of Modern Art, New York
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia
Guggenheim Museum, New York
Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford
Whitney Museum of Art, New York
Richard M. Ross Art Museum, Ohio




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 dei Medici Career Award, awarded at the Florence Biennale




Exhibitions


Anuskiewicz exhibited in many public collections around the world, including such New York galleries as Sidney Janis, The Contemporaries, and the Andrew Crispo Gallery.

1955: Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, Ohio
1966: Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio
1967: The Hopkins Center, Hanover, New Hampshire
1968: Kent State University, Kent, Ohio
1972: Museum of Contemporary Art Jacksonville, Jacksonville, Florida
1976: La Jolla Museum of Contemporary Art, La Jolla, California
1977: Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, Ohio
1978: Ringling Museum, Sarasota, Florida
1978: Allentown Art Museum, Allentown, Pennsylvania
1979: Alex Rosenberg Gallery, New York City, New York
1979: Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Massachusetts
1980: Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, New York
1980: Carnegie Museums of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
1984: Heckscher Museum of Art, Huntington, New York
1984: Canton Art Institute, Canton, Ohio
1986: Tampa Museum of Art, Tampa, Florida
2005: Florence Biennale, Fortezza da Basso, Firenze, Italy




Bibliography


Anuszkiewicz, Richard and Karl Lunde. "Anuszkiewicz." New York: H.N. Abrams (1977). ISBN 0-8109-0363-6
Alviani, Getulio, Margaret A. Miller and Giancarlo Pauletto. "Richard Anuszkiewicz: Opere 1961-1987." Pordenone: Centro Culturale Casa A. Zanussi (1988).
Buchsteiner, Thomas and Ingrid Mossinger. "Anuszkiewicz Op Art." Ostfildern: Hatje Cantz Publishers (1997). ISBN 978-3-7757-0671-1
Kolva, Jeanne, Maxine Lurie (ed.) and Marc Mappen (ed.). Anuszkiewicz, Richard. "Encyclopedia of New Jersey." New Brunswick: Rutgers University (2004). 9780813533254
Madden, David and Nicholas Spike. "Richard Anuszkiewicz: Paintings & Sculptures 1945-2001: Catalogue Raisonné." Florence: Centro Di Edizioni (2010). ISBN 978-88-7038-483-3
Price, Marshall N. "The Abstract Impulse: fifty years of abstraction at the National Academy, 1956-2006." Manchester: Hudson Hills Press (2007). ISBN 978-1-887149-17-4
Ratliff, Floyd, Neil K. Rector and Sanford Wurmfeld. "Color Function Painting: The Art of Josef Albers, Julian Stanczak and Richard Anuszkiewicz." Winston-Salem: Wake Forest UJohn Gruen (September, 1979). "Richard Anuszkiewicz: A Beautiful Discourse with Space". ARTnews. University Fine Arts Gallery (1996). ISBN 0-9720956-0-8
Gruen, John (September, 1979). "Richard Anuszkiewicz: A Beautiful Discourse with Space". ARTnews: 68, 69, 72, 73, 74.




References






External links


"Op Out of Ohio" review by Ken Johnson for the New York Times
Richard Anuszkiewicz Pronunciation
www.richardanuszkiewicz.com
rogallery.com
Richard Anuszkiewicz collection at the Israel Museum. Retrieved September 2016.
www.picassomio.com

Kata Kunci Pencarian:

• Josef Albers
• Richard Anuszkiewicz
• Op art
• Andrew Crispo
• Julian Stanczak
• Josef Albers
• Geometric abstraction
• Aesthetic Realism
• 20th-century Western painting
• Spine and Sensory
• List of people from Erie, Pennsylvania