Victor Vasarely should be taught to students of Art History 1 because he fused elements of design and the Abstract Expressionist movement to achieve and nurture the Op Art movement in the 1960s. Considered one of the originators of Op Art for his visually intricate and illusionistic portraits, Victor Vasarely spent the course of a lengthy, critically acclaimed profession seeking, and contending for, a method of art making that was profoundly social. He placed major significance on the development of an appealing, available optical language that could be collectively comprehended—this language, for Vasarely, was geometric abstraction, frequently referred to as Op Art. Through detailed arrangements of lines, geometric shapes, colors, and shading, he crafted eye-popping paintings, bursting with complexity, movement, and three-dimensionality. More than attractive ruses for the eye, Vasarely contended, “pure form and pure color can signify the world.”…