Word: agam
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...dedicated to Begin's granddaughters. For 25 minutes Begin visited Sadat. A half-hour later, Sadat suddenly appeared, without warning, at the door of Begin's cabin to return the call. To reciprocate the gift of photographs, Begin presented Sadat with a medallion by Israeli Artist Yachov Agam. Its theme: "The Dream of Peace." Then Begin suggested, "Let's both go tomorrow night to hear President Carter address the Congress." Sadat agreed. Already, Carter's aides were making the arrangements for the trip down from the mountain to tell the world what the three leaders had wrought...
...that agitated the surface of art in the 1960s, Op art had the briefest life. What became of all those eye-teasing patterns, those blips and dazzles and other paraphernalia of quick-shot visual illusion? Gone, mostly: either degenerating into unctuously chic decor-as with European artists like Yaacov Agam or, in his late work, Victor Vasarely-or vanishing into that limbo of taste where obsolete experiments go. Today's supergraphics wrap tomorrow's garbage...
...from pre-Bastille to post-Kubrick. Gone from the palace (built in 1718) were the murky frescoes, the gilt-edged mirrors, the priceless Louis XV and Louis XVI furniture. The anteroom where guests are greeted is now a blast of color and light, designed by Israeli Op Artist Yaacov Agam and dominated by his wall-size "kinetic" murals...
...descriptive space, a making of positive from a previous void. In much of the optical and kinetic movements, one sees the Constructivist concern for space rather than for mass reiterated, especially in the French group, La Groupe de la Recherche Visuele, that includes such pioneers as La Parc and Agam. From Gabo and Pevsner's use of spatial structure comes spatial drawing as manifested in Alexander Calder's mobiles and stabiles, Anthony Caro's I Beams or even Picasso's wire sculptures...
...Michelangelo's Sistine Chapel frescoes cover an area of about 8,000 sq. ft., while the painted surface of Agam's mural measures...