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Wojcieck (Voy) Fangor

Wojcieck (Voy) Fangor (1922 - 2015) was active/lived in New York, New Jersey / Poland.  Wojcieck Fangor is known for Abstract-illusion and optical art painting, social realism, posters.

Following is The New York Times obituary of Wojciech Fangor by William Grimes, November 9, 2015

Wojciech Fangor, one of the most distinctive painters to emerge from postwar Poland, died on Oct. 25 in Warsaw. He was 92.
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His death was confirmed by Prof. Margaret Soltan of George Washington University, a family friend.

Mr. Fangor, who was known for his blurred circles, amoebas and cloud shapes in dense, saturated colors that seemed to throb and swirl, first became known in the United States in the 1960s, when his work was included in two group exhibitions at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. In 1970, he had a one-man show at the Guggenheim Museum.
His work, perched midway between Color Field painting and Op Art, dazzled critics, notably John Canaday of The New York Times, who reviewed the work in rapturous tones.

“As a colorist he has extended the limits — and keeps on expanding them — of the simplest optical laws,” Mr. Canaday wro   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 9086 characters.]  Artist bio

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