Yesterday i added a very nice publication on Vera Molnar to my inventory and realized that she was the artist i was most impressed with the time i visited the Vasarely Museum in Budapest. Molnar born 1924 studied with the art school of Budapest and was one of the first artists worldwide to experiment with computers in her art.
In 1968 she began working with computers, where she began to create algorithmic paintings based on simple geometric shapes geometrical themes.
Patterns and compositions were made with help the computer and since, her art developed in something very special.
In the 1960s, Molnar co-founded several artist research groups: GRAV who investigate collaborative approaches to mechanical and kinetic art, and Art et Informatique, with a focus on art and computing. Molnar learned the early programming languages of Fortran and Basic, and gained access to a computer at a research lab in Paris where she began to make computer graphic drawings on a plotter, several of which are included in a 2015 retrospective exhibition in New York called “Regarding the Infinite | Drawings 1950-1987.
Her works are now found in collections and museums all over the world, but the best museum to see her works is the Vasarely Museum in Budapest.
www.ftn-books.com has some nice Molnar publications in its collection. including a signed and original print.
