op art

op art
op-art, adj.op artist.
a style of abstract art in which lines, forms, and space are organized in such a way as to provide optical illusions of an ambiguous nature, as alternately advancing and receding squares on a flat surface. Also, Op Art. Also called op, optical art.
[1960-65; OP(TICAL)]

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or Optical art

Branch of mid-20th-century geometric abstract art that deals with optical illusion.

Op art painters devised complex optical spaces by manipulating repetitive forms such as parallel lines, checkerboard patterns, and concentric circles or by creating chromatic tension from the juxtaposition of complementary colours, thereby creating the illusion of movement. Principal artists of the Op movement in the late 1950s and the '60s include Victor Vasarely, Bridget Riley (b. 1931), and Larry Poons (b. 1937).

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also called  optical art 

      branch of mid-20th-century geometric, abstract art that deals with optical illusion. Achieved through the systematic and precise manipulation of shapes and colours, the effects of Op art can be based either on perspective illusion or on chromatic tension; in painting, the dominant medium of Op art, the surface tension is usually maximized to the point at which an actual pulsation or flickering is perceived by the human eye. In its concern with utterly abstract formal relationships Op art is indirectly related to such other 20th-century styles as Orphism, Constructivism, Suprematism, and Futurism—particularly the latter because of its emphasis on pictorial movement and dynamism. Op painters differed from earlier artists working in geometric styles, however, in their purposeful manipulation of formal relationships in order to evoke perceptual illusions, ambiguities, and contradictions in the vision of the viewer.

      The principal artists of the Op movement as it emerged in the late 1950s and '60s were Victor Vasarely (Vasarely, Victor), Bridget Riley, Richard Anuszkiewicz, Larry Poons, and Jeffrey Steele. The movement first attracted international attention with the Op exhibition “The Responsive Eye” at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City in 1965. Op art painters devised complex and paradoxical optical spaces through the illusory manipulation of such simple repetitive forms as parallel lines, checkerboard patterns, and concentric circles or by creating chromatic tension from the juxtaposition of complementary (chromatically opposite) colours of equal intensity. These spaces create the illusion of movement, preventing the viewer's eye from resting long enough on any one part of the surface to be able to interpret it literally. “Op art works exist,” according to one writer, “less as objects than as generators of perceptual responses.”

      Op art goals were shared by the French Groupe de Recherche d'Art Visuel (“Group for Research in the Visual Arts”) and by the Chilean-born artist Jesus Raphael Soto. These artists made large-scale Op sculptures that employ light and motors, as well as sculptural materials, to create the illusion of movement in space that is fundamental to all Op art.

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