Julie Oppermann is an American painter, whose body of work merges three very different things together —
1960s Op art,»70s video imagery and»80s abstraction.
Reminiscent of
the 1960s Op Art movement, especially the British painter Bridget Riley, Auerbach's hypnotic paintings, sculptures, books and prints reflect abstraction, Minimalism and even Pop, with a meticulous attention to craft.
Taaffe derives inspiration from a variety of sources, including Islamic architecture, Pompeiian mosaics,
1960s Op Art, and nineteenth century monographs on natural history.
Kujasalo's practice has its roots in
1960s Op art, especially in the work of artists such as Bridget Riley and Richard Anuzkiewicz.
Altered States looks at contemporary artists who explore psychedelia (mostly painting and some constructions with a mix of figuration, geometric and Op imagery) against a back drop of
1960s Op Art, figurative and Color Field paintings, as well as original rock posters.
Deftly creating dynamic illusions of depth and space on a two - dimensional surface, Grotjhan makes reference to various points in the history of painting, from Renaissance linear perspective, to the utopian shapes and visions of early 20th century Russian Constructivism, to the hallucinatory images of
1960s Op Art.
Altered States looks at contemporary artists who explore psychedelia (mostly painting and some constructions with a mix of figuration, geometric and Op imagery) against a back drop of
1960s Op Art, figurative and Color Field paintings, as well as original rock posters from concerts at the Fillmore West, Avalon Ballroom and other San Francisco venues to set the stage and create the mood.
So said Josef Albers, the father of hard - edge abstraction and
the 1960s Op Art movement.
Sheffield artist Paul Morrison's enigmatic botanical landscapes and night gardens combine familiar and unfamiliar elements of plant forms and flowers with motifs ranging from renaissance art to Lichtenstein and
1960s Op Art.
Not exact matches
The artist likens the intended experience of her installation to that of the
op - artists of the
1960s, which saw the likes of Bridget Riley manipulate traditional
art techniques to create optical illusions.
But Leonardo could not have anticipated the
Op Art movement of the
1960s, whose chief focus was to create the illusion of movement using static images.
Chic vintage
1960s JOSEPH MAGNIN silver and burgundy / maroon abstract
op -
art print silk brocade A - Line dress!
As a cerebral painter, this body of work continues his interest in systems, minimalism, and
Op Art from the
1960s and 70s; with the computer as a drawing tool, his images also explore contemporary graphic design, digital technology and the history of hard - edged abstract, geometric painting.
During the late
1960s Larry Poons whose earlier Dot paintings were associated with
Op Art began to produce looser and more free formed paintings that were referred to as his Lozenge Ellipse paintings of 1967 - 1968.
A graduate of the Royal College of
Art, Smith rose to prominence in the
1960s with his take on
Op -
Art, and represented Britain at the 1970 Venice Biennale.
The effect recalls
Op Art from the 1960s, which brought dynamism to seeing a
Art from the
1960s, which brought dynamism to seeing
artart.
Around
1960 she began to develop her signature
Op Art style consisting of black and white geometric patterns that explore the dynamism of sight and produce a disorienting effect on the eye.
At first blush, Annell Livingston's tightly gridded abstractions might appear to be successors to the
Op Art frenzy of the
1960s, but on closer scrutiny her gently rippling canvases are not so much interested in playing visual tricks as in conveying the passage of light and a feeling of transience.
A pioneer of the
Op Art movement of the
1960s and one of the most significant artists working today, Bridget Riley's dedication to the interaction of form and color has led to a continued exploration of perception.
Riley's black - and - white paintings of the early
1960s, in which space seems to advance and buckle, thanks to her careful calibration of repeated shapes, placed the young artist in the vanguard of
Op art.
The museum's collection of post-war works on paper contains a comprehensive survey of
1960s artists who worked in prints and drawings, from minimalism (Donald Judd, Ellsworth Kelly, and Sol LeWitt) to pop
art (Jim Dine, Roy Lichtenstein, and James Rosenquist) to
op art (Victor Vasarely and Bridget Riley).
Far Out:
Art from the 1960s explores art from a decade that introduced such movements as Pop, Op, Minimalism, Kinetic, Fluxus, and Conceptual Art, while weaving in the social and historical narrative of that ti
Art from the
1960s explores
art from a decade that introduced such movements as Pop, Op, Minimalism, Kinetic, Fluxus, and Conceptual Art, while weaving in the social and historical narrative of that ti
art from a decade that introduced such movements as Pop,
Op, Minimalism, Kinetic, Fluxus, and Conceptual
Art, while weaving in the social and historical narrative of that ti
Art, while weaving in the social and historical narrative of that time.
Returning shows include Sascha Braunig's haunting,
op -
art inspired paintings at Foxy Production, and Derek Eller's retrospective of Thomas Barrow, a photographer who came of age in the
1960s, but whose distempered photo collages look distinctly contemporary.
This is a celebrated example of that fashionable idiom of the
1960s,
Op Art.
Examining the connection between breakthroughs in photography and new techniques in painting, the exhibition will present rooms devoted to
Op Art and Kinetic
Art from
1960, with paintings by Bridget Riley and installations of key photographic works from the era by artists including Floris Neussis and Gottfried Jaeger.
«The connection between these artists is direct since Katz was once Karlik's professor and Celentano is a pioneer of the
Op Art movement first coined in the 1960s, though perceptual art has existed prior and sin
Art movement first coined in the
1960s, though perceptual
art has existed prior and sin
art has existed prior and since.
In a rare interview, Riley, 81, spoke about the use of colour in her work, which was dubbed «
op art», a pun on the pop
art movement, in the
1960s.
The mix of primaries, the swirls closest to abstraction, and the most dizzying works date from the
1960s, the decade of
Op Art, Bridget Riley, and psychedelia.
Opere scelte dalla Collezione François Pinault,» Palazzo Grassi — François Pinault Foundation (IT), «Notations / Forms of Contingency: New York and Turin
1960 / 1970s,» Philadelphia Museum of
Art, Philadelphia (USA), «Zero to Infinity: Arte Povera 1962 - 1972,» Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington DC (USA), The Museum of Contemporary
Art, Los Angeles, (USA), Walker
Art Center, Minneapolis (USA), Tate Modern, London (UK), «Arte Povera,» Toyota Municipal Museum of
Art, Toyota (JP), «The Italian Metamorphosis, 1943 - 1972,» Triennale, Milan (IT), Kunstmuseum, Wolfsburg (A), Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York (USA), «The Knot Arte Povera at P.S. 1, MoMA P.S. 1, New York (USA), «Prospect» 68,» Städtische Kunsthalle, Düsseldorf (DE), «
Op Losse Schroeven: Situaties en cryptostructuren,» Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam (NL), «Live in Your Head: When Attitudes Become Form / Works, Concepts, Processes, Situations, Information,» Kunsthalle Bern, Bern (CH); and he has taken part in various international biennales, such as: 39th, 44th and 52nd Biennale di Venezia (IT), as well as VII Biennale de Paris (FR), XII Biennal de São Paulo, São Paulo (BR), Documenta IX and Documenta V, Kassel (DE).
Standing nearly five feet tall, this striking composition — which playfully evokes the swirling sky in van Gogh's The Starry Night — is an amazingly well - priced piece by Julio Le Parc, a trailblazing pioneer of
Op Art and kinetic sculpture in Paris and Argentina's 1960s art scen
Art and kinetic sculpture in Paris and Argentina's
1960s art scen
art scenes.
The «new
art» of the late
1960s was shown in two landmark exhibitions in 1969: «
Op Losse Schroeven» and «When Attitudes Become Form.»
Widely known as an icon of
Op art, Riley first came to prominence in the
1960s — notably after her participation in The Responsive Eye exhibition at MoMA in 1965 — creating visually disruptive black - and - white paintings that actively engaged the viewer's perception, using geometrical patterns that were quickly taken over by the fashion and design industries throughout the «Swinging Sixties».
The Optical Edge, Pratt Manhattan Gallery, New York, USA After Image:
Op Art of the
1960s, Jacobson Howard Gallery, New York, USA The Optic Nerve: Perceptual
Art of the
1960s, Columbus Museum of
Art, Columbus, USA
Op Art, Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt, Germany
Bridget Riley is an abstract painter who came to prominence in the American
Op Art movement of the
1960s, after her inclusion in the 1965 exhibition «The Responsive Eye» at The Museum of Modern
Art.
Representing the contemporary trend for
op art and light
art, the Korean artist Chul - Hyun Ahn perfectly translates his research into geometric abstract painting from the
1960s into an
art of...
«Re-
Op» explores contemporary approaches to understanding, re-examining, and pushing the boundaries of visual perception beyond those initially posed by
Op Art in the early
1960s.
Her approach to painting, often with the use of assistants, was to be a key component of the development of
Op Art in the
1960s, with Riley at the forefront.
Born in the
1960s, psychedelic
art is thriving in the capable hands of contemporary artists who have been inspired and influenced by a variety of mid-20th century art styles, including Op Art (Optical Art) and Color Field paintin
art is thriving in the capable hands of contemporary artists who have been inspired and influenced by a variety of mid-20th century
art styles, including Op Art (Optical Art) and Color Field paintin
art styles, including
Op Art (Optical Art) and Color Field paintin
Art (Optical
Art) and Color Field paintin
Art) and Color Field paintings.
Selected references: Arnason, H.H., History of Modern
Art: Painting, Sculpture, Architecture, 1968 Barr, Alfred, Painting and Sculpture in the Museum of Modern
Art, 1929 - 1967, 1977 Barrett, Cyril,
Op Art, 1970 Barrett, Cyril, An Introduction to Optical
Art, 1971 Houston, Joe, Optic Nerve, Perceptual
Art of the
1960s, 2007 Kulterman, Udo, The New Painting, 1969 Lampe, Angela, Robert Delaunay, Rythmes Sans Fin, Centre Pompidou exhibition catalog, 2014 Pellegrini, Aldo, New Tendencies in
Art, 1966 Popper, Frank, Origins and Development of Kinetic
Art, 1968 Rickey, George, Constructivism: Origins and Evolution, 1967/1995 Rosenthal, Erwin, Contemporary
Art in the Light of History, 1971/2013 Tiampo, Ming, Gutai: Decentering Modernism, 2011 Weller, Allen S., The Joys and Sorrows of Recent American
Art, 1968
There was a short period, at the start of the
1960s, when his new work drew a lot of attention, at a time when British
art was erupting with new energies and optimism: St Ives going strong, plus situation painting, pop
art,
op art.
Michael James Kidner RA (1917 - 2009) was a pioneer of
Op art in the mid
1960s.
Michael Kidner was described by American
art historian and critic Irving Sandler as «arguably the first
Op Artist in Britain», following his investigations of the optical effects of light, color and systemic structure during the
1960s.
• Introduction • Impressionist Movement (fl.1870s - 1880s) • Neo-Impressionism (1880s) • Newlyn School -LRB-(fl.1884 - 1914)-RRB- •
Art Nouveau (Jugendstijl)(1890 - 1914) • Symbolist
Art (1890s) • Post Impressionist
Art (1880s / 90s) • Les Fauves (1905 - 8) • Expressionist Movement (1905 onwards) • The Bridge (Germany 1905 - 13)(Die Brucke) • Blue Rider (Germany 1911 - 14)(Der Blaue Reiter) • Ashcan School (New York)(1900 - 1915) • Cubist
Art (fl.1908 - 1914) • Orphic Cubism (Orphism, Simultanism)(1914 - 15) • Photographic
Art • Collage (from 1912) • Futurist
Art (1909 - 1914) • Rayonism (c.1912 - 14) • Suprematism (c.1913 - 1918) • Constructivism (1914 - 32) • Vorticism (c.1914 - 15) • Dada (Europe, 1916 - 1924) • De Stijl (1917 - 31) • Neo-Plasticism (fl.1918 - 26) • Bauhaus School (Germany, 1919 - 1933) • Purism (Early, mid-1920s) • Precisionism (Cubist - Realism)(fl. 1920s) • Surrealist Movement (1924 onwards) •
Art Deco (c.1925 - 40) • Ecole de Paris (Paris School) • New Objectivity (Neue Sachlichkeit)(Germany, 1925 - 35) • Magic Realism (1925 - 40) • Socialist Realism (1928 - 80) • Social Realism (America)(1930 - 45) • Degenerate
Art (Entartete Kunst)(1933 - 45) • Neo-Romanticism (1935 - 55) •
Art Brut • Organic Abstraction (fl.1930 - 1950) • St Ives School (1939 - 75) • Existential
Art (Late - 1940s, 1950s) • Abstract Expressionist Movement (1947 - 65) •
Art Informel (fl. 1950s) • Tachisme (1950s) • Arte Nucleare (c.1951 - 60) • Assemblages (1953 onwards) • Neo-Dada (1953 - 65) • Kitchen Sink
Art (c.1954 - 57) • Pop
Art (c.1958 - 70) •
Op -
Art (Optical
Art)(fl.1965 - 70) • New Realism (
1960s) • Post-Painterly Abstraction (Clement Greenberg)(Early, mid-
1960s)
•
OP - ART - KINETIC ART (1950s, 1960s) Victor Vasarely (1906 - 1997) Hungarian painter, graphic designer; founder of Op - Art, explored Kineticis
OP -
ART - KINETIC ART (1950s, 1960s) Victor Vasarely (1906 - 1997) Hungarian painter, graphic designer; founder of Op - Art, explored Kinetici
ART - KINETIC
ART (1950s, 1960s) Victor Vasarely (1906 - 1997) Hungarian painter, graphic designer; founder of Op - Art, explored Kinetici
ART (1950s,
1960s) Victor Vasarely (1906 - 1997) Hungarian painter, graphic designer; founder of
Op - Art, explored Kineticis
Op -
Art, explored Kinetici
Art, explored Kineticism.
A 1958 exhibition of Jackson Pollock's work at Whitechapel Gallery had a major impact on the young artist, but it wasn't until the early
1960s that Riley began to develop her signature
Op Art style consisting of black and white illusionistic patterns.
Light and Space denotes a loosely affiliated [
art movement] related to
op art, minimalism and geometric abstraction originating in Southern California in the
1960s and influenced by John McLaughlin.
MODERN
ART Pre-Raphaelites (1848 on) Impressionistm (1870s on) Neo-Impressionism (1870s) Newlyn School (1880s) Art Nouveau (Late 19th C) Symbolism (Late 19th C) Post Impressionism (c. 1880s) Les Fauves (1898 - 1908) Expressionist Art (1900 on) Die Brucke (1905 - 11) Der Blaue Reiter (1911 - 14) Ashcan School (1892 - 1919) Cubism (1908 - 1920) Orphism (1912 - 16) Purism (1920s) Precisionism (1920s on) Collage (1912 on) Futurism (1909 - 1914) Rayonism (1910 - 20) Suprematism (1913 - 1920s) Constructivism (1917 - 21) Vorticism (1913 - 15) Dada Movement (1916 - 1924) De Stijl (1917 - 31) Bauhaus School (1919 - 1933) Neo-Plasticism (1920 - 40) Art Deco (1920s, 30s) Ecole de Paris (1900 on) Neue Sachlichkeit (1920s) Surrealism (1924 on) Magic Realism (1920s) Entartete Kunst (1930s) Social Realism (1920s, 30s) Socialist Realism (1929 on) St Ives School (1930s on) Neo-Romanticism: from 1930s Organic Abstraction (1940 - 65) Existential Art (1940s, 50s) Abstract Expressionism (c.1944 - 64) Art Informel (c.1946 - 60) Tachisme (1940s, 50s) Arte Nucleare (1951 - 60) Kitchen Sink Art (mid-1950s) Assemblage (1953 on) Neo-Dada (1950s on) Op - Art (Optical Art)(1960s) Pop Art (1958 - 72) New Realism (1960s) Post-Painterly Abstraction (1960s) Feminist Art (1960s
ART Pre-Raphaelites (1848 on) Impressionistm (1870s on) Neo-Impressionism (1870s) Newlyn School (1880s)
Art Nouveau (Late 19th C) Symbolism (Late 19th C) Post Impressionism (c. 1880s) Les Fauves (1898 - 1908) Expressionist Art (1900 on) Die Brucke (1905 - 11) Der Blaue Reiter (1911 - 14) Ashcan School (1892 - 1919) Cubism (1908 - 1920) Orphism (1912 - 16) Purism (1920s) Precisionism (1920s on) Collage (1912 on) Futurism (1909 - 1914) Rayonism (1910 - 20) Suprematism (1913 - 1920s) Constructivism (1917 - 21) Vorticism (1913 - 15) Dada Movement (1916 - 1924) De Stijl (1917 - 31) Bauhaus School (1919 - 1933) Neo-Plasticism (1920 - 40) Art Deco (1920s, 30s) Ecole de Paris (1900 on) Neue Sachlichkeit (1920s) Surrealism (1924 on) Magic Realism (1920s) Entartete Kunst (1930s) Social Realism (1920s, 30s) Socialist Realism (1929 on) St Ives School (1930s on) Neo-Romanticism: from 1930s Organic Abstraction (1940 - 65) Existential Art (1940s, 50s) Abstract Expressionism (c.1944 - 64) Art Informel (c.1946 - 60) Tachisme (1940s, 50s) Arte Nucleare (1951 - 60) Kitchen Sink Art (mid-1950s) Assemblage (1953 on) Neo-Dada (1950s on) Op - Art (Optical Art)(1960s) Pop Art (1958 - 72) New Realism (1960s) Post-Painterly Abstraction (1960s) Feminist Art (1960s
Art Nouveau (Late 19th C) Symbolism (Late 19th C) Post Impressionism (c. 1880s) Les Fauves (1898 - 1908) Expressionist
Art (1900 on) Die Brucke (1905 - 11) Der Blaue Reiter (1911 - 14) Ashcan School (1892 - 1919) Cubism (1908 - 1920) Orphism (1912 - 16) Purism (1920s) Precisionism (1920s on) Collage (1912 on) Futurism (1909 - 1914) Rayonism (1910 - 20) Suprematism (1913 - 1920s) Constructivism (1917 - 21) Vorticism (1913 - 15) Dada Movement (1916 - 1924) De Stijl (1917 - 31) Bauhaus School (1919 - 1933) Neo-Plasticism (1920 - 40) Art Deco (1920s, 30s) Ecole de Paris (1900 on) Neue Sachlichkeit (1920s) Surrealism (1924 on) Magic Realism (1920s) Entartete Kunst (1930s) Social Realism (1920s, 30s) Socialist Realism (1929 on) St Ives School (1930s on) Neo-Romanticism: from 1930s Organic Abstraction (1940 - 65) Existential Art (1940s, 50s) Abstract Expressionism (c.1944 - 64) Art Informel (c.1946 - 60) Tachisme (1940s, 50s) Arte Nucleare (1951 - 60) Kitchen Sink Art (mid-1950s) Assemblage (1953 on) Neo-Dada (1950s on) Op - Art (Optical Art)(1960s) Pop Art (1958 - 72) New Realism (1960s) Post-Painterly Abstraction (1960s) Feminist Art (1960s
Art (1900 on) Die Brucke (1905 - 11) Der Blaue Reiter (1911 - 14) Ashcan School (1892 - 1919) Cubism (1908 - 1920) Orphism (1912 - 16) Purism (1920s) Precisionism (1920s on) Collage (1912 on) Futurism (1909 - 1914) Rayonism (1910 - 20) Suprematism (1913 - 1920s) Constructivism (1917 - 21) Vorticism (1913 - 15) Dada Movement (1916 - 1924) De Stijl (1917 - 31) Bauhaus School (1919 - 1933) Neo-Plasticism (1920 - 40)
Art Deco (1920s, 30s) Ecole de Paris (1900 on) Neue Sachlichkeit (1920s) Surrealism (1924 on) Magic Realism (1920s) Entartete Kunst (1930s) Social Realism (1920s, 30s) Socialist Realism (1929 on) St Ives School (1930s on) Neo-Romanticism: from 1930s Organic Abstraction (1940 - 65) Existential Art (1940s, 50s) Abstract Expressionism (c.1944 - 64) Art Informel (c.1946 - 60) Tachisme (1940s, 50s) Arte Nucleare (1951 - 60) Kitchen Sink Art (mid-1950s) Assemblage (1953 on) Neo-Dada (1950s on) Op - Art (Optical Art)(1960s) Pop Art (1958 - 72) New Realism (1960s) Post-Painterly Abstraction (1960s) Feminist Art (1960s
Art Deco (1920s, 30s) Ecole de Paris (1900 on) Neue Sachlichkeit (1920s) Surrealism (1924 on) Magic Realism (1920s) Entartete Kunst (1930s) Social Realism (1920s, 30s) Socialist Realism (1929 on) St Ives School (1930s on) Neo-Romanticism: from 1930s Organic Abstraction (1940 - 65) Existential
Art (1940s, 50s) Abstract Expressionism (c.1944 - 64) Art Informel (c.1946 - 60) Tachisme (1940s, 50s) Arte Nucleare (1951 - 60) Kitchen Sink Art (mid-1950s) Assemblage (1953 on) Neo-Dada (1950s on) Op - Art (Optical Art)(1960s) Pop Art (1958 - 72) New Realism (1960s) Post-Painterly Abstraction (1960s) Feminist Art (1960s
Art (1940s, 50s) Abstract Expressionism (c.1944 - 64)
Art Informel (c.1946 - 60) Tachisme (1940s, 50s) Arte Nucleare (1951 - 60) Kitchen Sink Art (mid-1950s) Assemblage (1953 on) Neo-Dada (1950s on) Op - Art (Optical Art)(1960s) Pop Art (1958 - 72) New Realism (1960s) Post-Painterly Abstraction (1960s) Feminist Art (1960s
Art Informel (c.1946 - 60) Tachisme (1940s, 50s) Arte Nucleare (1951 - 60) Kitchen Sink
Art (mid-1950s) Assemblage (1953 on) Neo-Dada (1950s on) Op - Art (Optical Art)(1960s) Pop Art (1958 - 72) New Realism (1960s) Post-Painterly Abstraction (1960s) Feminist Art (1960s
Art (mid-1950s) Assemblage (1953 on) Neo-Dada (1950s on)
Op -
Art (Optical Art)(1960s) Pop Art (1958 - 72) New Realism (1960s) Post-Painterly Abstraction (1960s) Feminist Art (1960s
Art (Optical
Art)(1960s) Pop Art (1958 - 72) New Realism (1960s) Post-Painterly Abstraction (1960s) Feminist Art (1960s
Art)(
1960s) Pop
Art (1958 - 72) New Realism (1960s) Post-Painterly Abstraction (1960s) Feminist Art (1960s
Art (1958 - 72) New Realism (
1960s) Post-Painterly Abstraction (
1960s) Feminist
Art (1960s
Art (
1960s on)
In the
1960s, Poons left the New England Conservatory of Music to pursue a career in painting, a decision honored with nearly immediate success — Poons» early works,
Op art paintings of circles and dots, were included in a MoMA exhibition when he was just 28.
Some of its associated artists were part of collectives like the Anonima Group — founded in
1960 by Ed Mieczkowski, Frank Hewitt, and Ernst Benkert — but
Op Art as a style wasn't nestled in the hands of a few promoters, nor situated in a specific locale.
You can't get far in a serious discussion of
Op Art without eventually referring to «The Responsive Eye,» another of Seitz's vital contributions the artistic climate of the
1960s.