Sentences with phrase «as op art»

In the 1960s, Riley became famous for her contributions to an artistic movement known as Op Art, so named for the optical illusions viewers often perceive in the work.

As popular as Op Art may have been in its heyday, classic works by the masters continue to rise in value and once again, the movements popularity is on the rise.

In the 1960s, this developed into an illusory style which became known as Op Art.

Often mis - categorized as Op Art Walden's work has more in common with Sol Lewitt and has been especially influenced by the early work of Frank Stella and the late paintings of Ad Reinhardt.

In 1965, the Museum of Modern Art open The Responsive Eye, an exhibition of what most people refer to as op art.

His works were included in landmark exhibitions such as Op Art: The Responsive Eye, at the Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum's Young America 1965 and the Expo 67, held in Montreal.

As one of the progenitors of what eventually became known as Op Art, Stanczak was a pioneer who discovered the extraordinary things that can be accomplished using only the simple elements of color and line.

American Fine Art Magazine May June 2015 John O'Hern In 1965, the Museum of Modern Art open The Responsive Eye, an exhibition of what most people refer to as op art.

Tadasky, who was born in 1935 and whose full name is Tadasuke Kuwayama, has not lacked for attention lately as Op Art has been resurrected by contemporary - art curators as an object of serious interest.

Because of its commercial nature, psychedelic art was once considered to be «low» versus «high» art (as Op Art was).

One of the artists whose became internationally known as an op art pioneer, and whose works are on display in the exhibition, is 82 - year - old Julian Stanczak.

As such, the style was related to other similar genres such as Op art, kinetic abstraction, geometric abstract art, ABC art, Cool art, non-gestural painting, non-relationalism, abstract mannerism, precisionism...

They say seeing is believing — but as Op Art reveals, you can't always believe your eyes.

Not exact matches

As I've written about before (most recently in a Houston Chronicle op - ed), here in Houston ISD we have one of the nation's most advanced central kitchens for the preparation of school food: a state - of - the - art, $ 51 million facility that takes up 15 - acres, with 95,000 square feet devoted to baking, «cook / chill» and cold food preparation, as well as football - field - sized freezer and dry storage areaAs I've written about before (most recently in a Houston Chronicle op - ed), here in Houston ISD we have one of the nation's most advanced central kitchens for the preparation of school food: a state - of - the - art, $ 51 million facility that takes up 15 - acres, with 95,000 square feet devoted to baking, «cook / chill» and cold food preparation, as well as football - field - sized freezer and dry storage areaas well as football - field - sized freezer and dry storage areaas football - field - sized freezer and dry storage areas.

His past career as a black ops commando keeps bubbling to the surface, however, and the second trailer for The Equalizer shows him dipping back into the art of justice by retrieving a stolen ring belonging to one of his co-workers.

According to the director, the film sprung from his desire to develop a film around the talents and skill of mixed martial arts fighter Gina Carano, and the finished film — which casts Carano as a covert agent in a shady private international agency that contracts out for government spy ops — gives you no reason to assume otherwise.

Haywire, an action movie starring mixed martial arts champion - turned - actress, Gina Carano as black - ops contractor Mallory Kane, starts off promising enough.

Can be used as a booklet for long / frequent periods of cover, as separate tasks worksheets and / or to support and extend existing units of work: Topics include: ● Task 1: Op Art ● Task 2: Be an Art Critic!

For a parent or guardian to not educate their dependents as to the nature of their art is criminal and can more than likely lead to catastrophic misinterpretation, but with the release of Call of Duty: Black Ops, we have seen the careful and committed hand of a few very talented artists.

Demonstrating strong support from 3rd party developers and publishers, upcoming PS4 software titles this year in Australia include highly anticipated releases such as Call of Duty: Black Ops III (Activision Publishing, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Activision Blizzard, Inc.) and Star Wars ™ Battlefront ™ (Electronic Arts Inc.), launching alongside special PS4 hardware bundles.

IGNs sidebar displayed an ad showing the Black Ops 4 art with what can presumably be Playstation exclusivity at the bottom (as previously predicted).

The company left nothing to chance in the months leading up to the Japanese launch of the console at the close of 1994; mindful that it lacked the internal resource to compete with Sega and Nintendo's enviable in - house talent it diligently courted third - party publishers such as Capcom, Konami, Electronic Arts and Namco, the latter of which would supply what was the console's undisputed killer app at launch: an astonishingly accurate conversion of its smash - hit Ridge Racer coin - op.

It is not a surprise that Sega has always manufactured and introduced in the arcade industry many unique and avant - garde games, as well as advanced technology in its coin - ops that masterfully mix the art of the video game with immersive, hydraulic, Taikan - built cabinets.

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 paintinAs 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 paintinas a drawing tool, his images also explore contemporary graphic design, digital technology and the history of hard - edged abstract, geometric painting.

Touching on formal elements such as color theory and Op Art, we will explore the visual effects created within works of art including, but not limited to: pattern, repetition, design, composition, Gestalt psychology and all forms of optical razzle dazzle that will make the cones and rods in our eyes forget which way is Art, we will explore the visual effects created within works of art including, but not limited to: pattern, repetition, design, composition, Gestalt psychology and all forms of optical razzle dazzle that will make the cones and rods in our eyes forget which way is art including, but not limited to: pattern, repetition, design, composition, Gestalt psychology and all forms of optical razzle dazzle that will make the cones and rods in our eyes forget which way is up.

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.

Associated with movements as diverse as Abstract Expressionism, Color Field painting, Minimalism, Op art, and Postmodernism, the artists featured in Rothko to Richter were at the forefront of debates about the changing priorities and imperatives of painting after World War II, each seeking to redefine abstraction for new social and cultural milieus.

He draws on the interaction between illusion and picture plane of 60s Op art, as well as a Warholian fascination with celebrity culture.

Critics dismissed op art as portraying nothing more than fool the eye.

While her passion for the nature of human perception has tied her legacy to the contributions of the Op Art movement, it would be further understood in the context of the Bauhaus figures that were a major influence on her, such as Josef Albers.

Famous for her monochrome or Op Art «paintings» made from knitted wool and other distaff materials, Rosemarie Trockel often tackles themes of appropriation from a feminist stance — but her work is far richer and stranger, as admirers of her 2012 New Museum show can attest.

Inspired by the success of The Responsive Eye and a resulting explosion in enthusiasm for the Op Art (also known as Optical Art) movement, art collector, clothing manufacturer (and subsequently founder of the Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum) Larry Aldrich, hired graphic artist Julian Tomchin to translate some of the Op Art paintings in his collection into textile desigArt (also known as Optical Art) movement, art collector, clothing manufacturer (and subsequently founder of the Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum) Larry Aldrich, hired graphic artist Julian Tomchin to translate some of the Op Art paintings in his collection into textile desigArt) movement, art collector, clothing manufacturer (and subsequently founder of the Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum) Larry Aldrich, hired graphic artist Julian Tomchin to translate some of the Op Art paintings in his collection into textile desigart collector, clothing manufacturer (and subsequently founder of the Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum) Larry Aldrich, hired graphic artist Julian Tomchin to translate some of the Op Art paintings in his collection into textile desigArt Museum) Larry Aldrich, hired graphic artist Julian Tomchin to translate some of the Op Art paintings in his collection into textile desigArt paintings in his collection into textile designs.

It also relates to Op Art, Pattern and Decoration, and his work as a musician.

I like Op Art as much as the next person, but it has never once had me reeling.

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.

With R. H. Quaytman's solo show, a tightly packed grid slides down visually as well as literally, in a kind of Op Art in miniature.

Venezuelan op - art master Jesús Rafael Soto's 1988 abstract piece hung at the fair's entrance as part of the SITIO section.

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 tiArt 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 tiart 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 tiArt, while weaving in the social and historical narrative of that time.

Although his early works can be considered a form of Op art, as he depicted ovals and circles on flat surfaces of paint, he developed in his later years a style that is more linked with hard - edge and color field painting.

Works by the American Abstract Artist group (Stuart Davis, Ilya Bolotowsky, Esphyr Slobodkina, Balcomb Greene, Milton Avery) give twentieth - century abstraction its place in the collection, as do later examples of Surrealism (Kay Sage, George Tooker), Abstract Expressionism (Lee Krasner, Giorgio Cavallon, Morris Graves, Robert Motherwell, Sam Francis, Cleve Gray), Pop and Op art (Andy Warhol, Larry Rivers, Robert Indiana, Tom Wesselman, Jim Dine), Conceptual (Christo, Sol LeWitt), and Photo - Realism (Robert Cottingham).

A presentation by Leslie Tonkonow Artworks + Projects of new works by American painter and printmaker Amy Cutler will also be on view, as well as significant works on paper by notable Op art exponent Bridget Riley, exhibited by David Zwirner.

An Op Art floor painting by Lisha Bai engages not just the senses, but the floor tiles as well.

Works such as her 2011 Shadow Weave series, which depict Op Art - inspired patterns, seemingly generated by a computer, using only inter-woven black and white strips of canvas, playing at the boundaries between the digital and the material as well as high aesthetic formalism and functionalism.

Building on the languages of Pop Art, Minimalism and Op Art, Halley, like his fellow Neo-Geo adherents, sought to capture what he saw as the «geometricisation of modern life».

The artist's ever - changing — even, at times, disorienting — sculptural surfaces have drawn comparisons to the 20th century movements such as Op and Kinetic Art.

It cites «Abstraction in Photography» when it comes to Barbara Morgan and Gertrude Altschul, «The Responsive Eye» when it comes to Bridget Riley and Op Art, and «Wall Hangings» when it comes to Sheila Hicks and Anni Albers — who had served as acting director of the weaving workshop at the Bauhaus.

«I was aware of op as a historical movement of course; I was an art history major at Columbia before deciding to move into fine art.

During his career, he was an active member of several art movements, such as Concrete art, Op Art, Fluxus, and Maximaliart movements, such as Concrete art, Op Art, Fluxus, and Maximaliart, Op Art, Fluxus, and MaximaliArt, Fluxus, and Maximalism.

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Morgan: The Man Who Bought the World by Rachel Cohen The Art Newspaper, September 2015, Wadsworth relives Gilded Age glory days in grand reopening by Julia Halperin The New York Times, Aug. 31, The Wadsworth Atheneum in Hartford Puts Final Touches on a Comeback by Ted Loos The Independent, Aug. 28, Warhol and Mapplethorpe capture each other by Charlotte Cripps The Hartford Courant, Aug. 18, Three «Aspects of Portraiture» at Wadsworth by Susan Dunne The Hartford Courant, July 16, Vibrant Paintings of Modernist Peter Blume at Wadsworth by Susan Dunne The Boston Globe, June 30, Hank Willis Thomas's slick image masks a closed door by Sebastian Smee The Boston Globe, June 25, Bradford enters MATRIX at Wadsworth Atheneum by Sebastian Smee Hartford Courant, June 25, Artist Creates Site - Specific «Pull Painting» at Atheneum by Susan Dunne Observer, June 16, A Peek Inside Hartford's Wadsworth Atheneum as It Preps for a Grand Reopening by Alanna Martinez The Wall Street Journal, June 5, Madrid's Thyssen Offers the Dark Religiosity of Zurbarán by J.S. Marcus Art New England, May / June 2015, Reviving the Grande Dame by Susan Rand Brown Humanities, May / June 2015, The Coney Island Exhibition That Captures Its Highs and Lows by Tom Christopher The Magazine Antiques, May / June 2015, Visions of Coney Island by Robin Jaffee Frank The New York Times, April 19, An American Dreamland, From the Beginning by Sylviane Gold Artes Magazine, April 16, At Hartford's Atheneum: «Coney Island: Visions of an American Dreamland, 1861 - 2008» by Richard Friswell Hartford Courant, April 9, Sideshow Mind Game at Atheneum by Susan Dunne Hyperallergic, March 4, Two Exhibitions Examine the Art of the American Side Show by Laura C. Mallonee Republican American, March 1, Coney Island R us by Tracey O'Shaughnessy Hyperallergic, Feb. 24, Mapplethorpe's Other Man by Larissa Archer WNPR, Feb. 24, Where We Live: The Lore and Lure of Coney Island by Betsy Kaplan and John Dankosky The Boston Globe, Feb. 24, Frame by Frame: Behind «Agbota,» an artist's irony and imagination by Sebastian Smee Real Simple, March 2015, A Life in Full Antiques and the Arts Weekly, Feb. 20, Step Right Art New England, November 2015, Preview: Warhol & Mapplethorpe: Guise & Dolls by Susan Rand Brown The Hartford Courant, Oct. 16, Gender - Bending «Warhol & Mapplethorpe» Exhibit At Wadsworth by Susan Dunne The Wall Street Journal, Oct. 13, At the Wadsworth Atheneum, an Old Building Gets New Life by Lee Rosenbaum Hartford Courant, Oct. 2, Artist Pokes Fun At «Great Chain Of Being» With New Wadsworth Exhibit by Susan Dunne The Economist, Oct. 1, Temple of Delight by Miles Unger Hartford Courant, Oct. 1, Renewed Atheneum a Cultural Tourism Spark Op - Ed by William Hosley Art in America, October 2015, Coney Island Forever by Jonathan Weinberg The Boston Globe, Sept. 19, European marvels await in Hartford at refurbished Atheneum by Sebastian Smee The Hartford Courant, Sept. 19, Wadsworth Atheneum Reopens To Line Of Visitors Saturday by Kristin Stoller The Hartford Courant, Sept. 19, Editorial: Wadsworth Atheneum Makeover is a Triumph Hyperallergic, Sept. 18, A Worthy Renovation for the Wadsworth Atheneum's European Art Galleries by Benjamin Sutton The New York Times, Sept. 17, Review: Wadsworth Atheneum, a Masterpiece of Renovation by Roberta Smith WNPR, Sept. 17, Hartford's Wadsworth Atheneum Unveils Newly Renovated Galleries by Diane Orson The Art Newspaper, Sept. 16, Wadsworth relives Gilded Age glory days in grand reopening by Julia Halperin The Hartford Courant, Sept. 13, Wadsworth Atheneum Unveils Final Phase of Years - Long Renovation by Susan Dunne Fox CT, Sept. 11, The art of a reopening at the Wadsworth by Jim Altman Apollo Magazine, Sept. 5, J.P. Morgan: The Man Who Bought the World by Rachel Cohen The Art Newspaper, September 2015, Wadsworth relives Gilded Age glory days in grand reopening by Julia Halperin The New York Times, Aug. 31, The Wadsworth Atheneum in Hartford Puts Final Touches on a Comeback by Ted Loos The Independent, Aug. 28, Warhol and Mapplethorpe capture each other by Charlotte Cripps The Hartford Courant, Aug. 18, Three «Aspects of Portraiture» at Wadsworth by Susan Dunne The Hartford Courant, July 16, Vibrant Paintings of Modernist Peter Blume at Wadsworth by Susan Dunne The Boston Globe, June 30, Hank Willis Thomas's slick image masks a closed door by Sebastian Smee The Boston Globe, June 25, Bradford enters MATRIX at Wadsworth Atheneum by Sebastian Smee Hartford Courant, June 25, Artist Creates Site - Specific «Pull Painting» at Atheneum by Susan Dunne Observer, June 16, A Peek Inside Hartford's Wadsworth Atheneum as It Preps for a Grand Reopening by Alanna Martinez The Wall Street Journal, June 5, Madrid's Thyssen Offers the Dark Religiosity of Zurbarán by J.S. Marcus Art New England, May / June 2015, Reviving the Grande Dame by Susan Rand Brown Humanities, May / June 2015, The Coney Island Exhibition That Captures Its Highs and Lows by Tom Christopher The Magazine Antiques, May / June 2015, Visions of Coney Island by Robin Jaffee Frank The New York Times, April 19, An American Dreamland, From the Beginning by Sylviane Gold Artes Magazine, April 16, At Hartford's Atheneum: «Coney Island: Visions of an American Dreamland, 1861 - 2008» by Richard Friswell Hartford Courant, April 9, Sideshow Mind Game at Atheneum by Susan Dunne Hyperallergic, March 4, Two Exhibitions Examine the Art of the American Side Show by Laura C. Mallonee Republican American, March 1, Coney Island R us by Tracey O'Shaughnessy Hyperallergic, Feb. 24, Mapplethorpe's Other Man by Larissa Archer WNPR, Feb. 24, Where We Live: The Lore and Lure of Coney Island by Betsy Kaplan and John Dankosky The Boston Globe, Feb. 24, Frame by Frame: Behind «Agbota,» an artist's irony and imagination by Sebastian Smee Real Simple, March 2015, A Life in Full Antiques and the Arts Weekly, Feb. 20, Step Right Art in America, October 2015, Coney Island Forever by Jonathan Weinberg The Boston Globe, Sept. 19, European marvels await in Hartford at refurbished Atheneum by Sebastian Smee The Hartford Courant, Sept. 19, Wadsworth Atheneum Reopens To Line Of Visitors Saturday by Kristin Stoller The Hartford Courant, Sept. 19, Editorial: Wadsworth Atheneum Makeover is a Triumph Hyperallergic, Sept. 18, A Worthy Renovation for the Wadsworth Atheneum's European Art Galleries by Benjamin Sutton The New York Times, Sept. 17, Review: Wadsworth Atheneum, a Masterpiece of Renovation by Roberta Smith WNPR, Sept. 17, Hartford's Wadsworth Atheneum Unveils Newly Renovated Galleries by Diane Orson The Art Newspaper, Sept. 16, Wadsworth relives Gilded Age glory days in grand reopening by Julia Halperin The Hartford Courant, Sept. 13, Wadsworth Atheneum Unveils Final Phase of Years - Long Renovation by Susan Dunne Fox CT, Sept. 11, The art of a reopening at the Wadsworth by Jim Altman Apollo Magazine, Sept. 5, J.P. Morgan: The Man Who Bought the World by Rachel Cohen The Art Newspaper, September 2015, Wadsworth relives Gilded Age glory days in grand reopening by Julia Halperin The New York Times, Aug. 31, The Wadsworth Atheneum in Hartford Puts Final Touches on a Comeback by Ted Loos The Independent, Aug. 28, Warhol and Mapplethorpe capture each other by Charlotte Cripps The Hartford Courant, Aug. 18, Three «Aspects of Portraiture» at Wadsworth by Susan Dunne The Hartford Courant, July 16, Vibrant Paintings of Modernist Peter Blume at Wadsworth by Susan Dunne The Boston Globe, June 30, Hank Willis Thomas's slick image masks a closed door by Sebastian Smee The Boston Globe, June 25, Bradford enters MATRIX at Wadsworth Atheneum by Sebastian Smee Hartford Courant, June 25, Artist Creates Site - Specific «Pull Painting» at Atheneum by Susan Dunne Observer, June 16, A Peek Inside Hartford's Wadsworth Atheneum as It Preps for a Grand Reopening by Alanna Martinez The Wall Street Journal, June 5, Madrid's Thyssen Offers the Dark Religiosity of Zurbarán by J.S. Marcus Art New England, May / June 2015, Reviving the Grande Dame by Susan Rand Brown Humanities, May / June 2015, The Coney Island Exhibition That Captures Its Highs and Lows by Tom Christopher The Magazine Antiques, May / June 2015, Visions of Coney Island by Robin Jaffee Frank The New York Times, April 19, An American Dreamland, From the Beginning by Sylviane Gold Artes Magazine, April 16, At Hartford's Atheneum: «Coney Island: Visions of an American Dreamland, 1861 - 2008» by Richard Friswell Hartford Courant, April 9, Sideshow Mind Game at Atheneum by Susan Dunne Hyperallergic, March 4, Two Exhibitions Examine the Art of the American Side Show by Laura C. Mallonee Republican American, March 1, Coney Island R us by Tracey O'Shaughnessy Hyperallergic, Feb. 24, Mapplethorpe's Other Man by Larissa Archer WNPR, Feb. 24, Where We Live: The Lore and Lure of Coney Island by Betsy Kaplan and John Dankosky The Boston Globe, Feb. 24, Frame by Frame: Behind «Agbota,» an artist's irony and imagination by Sebastian Smee Real Simple, March 2015, A Life in Full Antiques and the Arts Weekly, Feb. 20, Step Right Art Galleries by Benjamin Sutton The New York Times, Sept. 17, Review: Wadsworth Atheneum, a Masterpiece of Renovation by Roberta Smith WNPR, Sept. 17, Hartford's Wadsworth Atheneum Unveils Newly Renovated Galleries by Diane Orson The Art Newspaper, Sept. 16, Wadsworth relives Gilded Age glory days in grand reopening by Julia Halperin The Hartford Courant, Sept. 13, Wadsworth Atheneum Unveils Final Phase of Years - Long Renovation by Susan Dunne Fox CT, Sept. 11, The art of a reopening at the Wadsworth by Jim Altman Apollo Magazine, Sept. 5, J.P. Morgan: The Man Who Bought the World by Rachel Cohen The Art Newspaper, September 2015, Wadsworth relives Gilded Age glory days in grand reopening by Julia Halperin The New York Times, Aug. 31, The Wadsworth Atheneum in Hartford Puts Final Touches on a Comeback by Ted Loos The Independent, Aug. 28, Warhol and Mapplethorpe capture each other by Charlotte Cripps The Hartford Courant, Aug. 18, Three «Aspects of Portraiture» at Wadsworth by Susan Dunne The Hartford Courant, July 16, Vibrant Paintings of Modernist Peter Blume at Wadsworth by Susan Dunne The Boston Globe, June 30, Hank Willis Thomas's slick image masks a closed door by Sebastian Smee The Boston Globe, June 25, Bradford enters MATRIX at Wadsworth Atheneum by Sebastian Smee Hartford Courant, June 25, Artist Creates Site - Specific «Pull Painting» at Atheneum by Susan Dunne Observer, June 16, A Peek Inside Hartford's Wadsworth Atheneum as It Preps for a Grand Reopening by Alanna Martinez The Wall Street Journal, June 5, Madrid's Thyssen Offers the Dark Religiosity of Zurbarán by J.S. Marcus Art New England, May / June 2015, Reviving the Grande Dame by Susan Rand Brown Humanities, May / June 2015, The Coney Island Exhibition That Captures Its Highs and Lows by Tom Christopher The Magazine Antiques, May / June 2015, Visions of Coney Island by Robin Jaffee Frank The New York Times, April 19, An American Dreamland, From the Beginning by Sylviane Gold Artes Magazine, April 16, At Hartford's Atheneum: «Coney Island: Visions of an American Dreamland, 1861 - 2008» by Richard Friswell Hartford Courant, April 9, Sideshow Mind Game at Atheneum by Susan Dunne Hyperallergic, March 4, Two Exhibitions Examine the Art of the American Side Show by Laura C. Mallonee Republican American, March 1, Coney Island R us by Tracey O'Shaughnessy Hyperallergic, Feb. 24, Mapplethorpe's Other Man by Larissa Archer WNPR, Feb. 24, Where We Live: The Lore and Lure of Coney Island by Betsy Kaplan and John Dankosky The Boston Globe, Feb. 24, Frame by Frame: Behind «Agbota,» an artist's irony and imagination by Sebastian Smee Real Simple, March 2015, A Life in Full Antiques and the Arts Weekly, Feb. 20, Step Right Art Newspaper, Sept. 16, Wadsworth relives Gilded Age glory days in grand reopening by Julia Halperin The Hartford Courant, Sept. 13, Wadsworth Atheneum Unveils Final Phase of Years - Long Renovation by Susan Dunne Fox CT, Sept. 11, The art of a reopening at the Wadsworth by Jim Altman Apollo Magazine, Sept. 5, J.P. Morgan: The Man Who Bought the World by Rachel Cohen The Art Newspaper, September 2015, Wadsworth relives Gilded Age glory days in grand reopening by Julia Halperin The New York Times, Aug. 31, The Wadsworth Atheneum in Hartford Puts Final Touches on a Comeback by Ted Loos The Independent, Aug. 28, Warhol and Mapplethorpe capture each other by Charlotte Cripps The Hartford Courant, Aug. 18, Three «Aspects of Portraiture» at Wadsworth by Susan Dunne The Hartford Courant, July 16, Vibrant Paintings of Modernist Peter Blume at Wadsworth by Susan Dunne The Boston Globe, June 30, Hank Willis Thomas's slick image masks a closed door by Sebastian Smee The Boston Globe, June 25, Bradford enters MATRIX at Wadsworth Atheneum by Sebastian Smee Hartford Courant, June 25, Artist Creates Site - Specific «Pull Painting» at Atheneum by Susan Dunne Observer, June 16, A Peek Inside Hartford's Wadsworth Atheneum as It Preps for a Grand Reopening by Alanna Martinez The Wall Street Journal, June 5, Madrid's Thyssen Offers the Dark Religiosity of Zurbarán by J.S. Marcus Art New England, May / June 2015, Reviving the Grande Dame by Susan Rand Brown Humanities, May / June 2015, The Coney Island Exhibition That Captures Its Highs and Lows by Tom Christopher The Magazine Antiques, May / June 2015, Visions of Coney Island by Robin Jaffee Frank The New York Times, April 19, An American Dreamland, From the Beginning by Sylviane Gold Artes Magazine, April 16, At Hartford's Atheneum: «Coney Island: Visions of an American Dreamland, 1861 - 2008» by Richard Friswell Hartford Courant, April 9, Sideshow Mind Game at Atheneum by Susan Dunne Hyperallergic, March 4, Two Exhibitions Examine the Art of the American Side Show by Laura C. Mallonee Republican American, March 1, Coney Island R us by Tracey O'Shaughnessy Hyperallergic, Feb. 24, Mapplethorpe's Other Man by Larissa Archer WNPR, Feb. 24, Where We Live: The Lore and Lure of Coney Island by Betsy Kaplan and John Dankosky The Boston Globe, Feb. 24, Frame by Frame: Behind «Agbota,» an artist's irony and imagination by Sebastian Smee Real Simple, March 2015, A Life in Full Antiques and the Arts Weekly, Feb. 20, Step Right art of a reopening at the Wadsworth by Jim Altman Apollo Magazine, Sept. 5, J.P. Morgan: The Man Who Bought the World by Rachel Cohen The Art Newspaper, September 2015, Wadsworth relives Gilded Age glory days in grand reopening by Julia Halperin The New York Times, Aug. 31, The Wadsworth Atheneum in Hartford Puts Final Touches on a Comeback by Ted Loos The Independent, Aug. 28, Warhol and Mapplethorpe capture each other by Charlotte Cripps The Hartford Courant, Aug. 18, Three «Aspects of Portraiture» at Wadsworth by Susan Dunne The Hartford Courant, July 16, Vibrant Paintings of Modernist Peter Blume at Wadsworth by Susan Dunne The Boston Globe, June 30, Hank Willis Thomas's slick image masks a closed door by Sebastian Smee The Boston Globe, June 25, Bradford enters MATRIX at Wadsworth Atheneum by Sebastian Smee Hartford Courant, June 25, Artist Creates Site - Specific «Pull Painting» at Atheneum by Susan Dunne Observer, June 16, A Peek Inside Hartford's Wadsworth Atheneum as It Preps for a Grand Reopening by Alanna Martinez The Wall Street Journal, June 5, Madrid's Thyssen Offers the Dark Religiosity of Zurbarán by J.S. Marcus Art New England, May / June 2015, Reviving the Grande Dame by Susan Rand Brown Humanities, May / June 2015, The Coney Island Exhibition That Captures Its Highs and Lows by Tom Christopher The Magazine Antiques, May / June 2015, Visions of Coney Island by Robin Jaffee Frank The New York Times, April 19, An American Dreamland, From the Beginning by Sylviane Gold Artes Magazine, April 16, At Hartford's Atheneum: «Coney Island: Visions of an American Dreamland, 1861 - 2008» by Richard Friswell Hartford Courant, April 9, Sideshow Mind Game at Atheneum by Susan Dunne Hyperallergic, March 4, Two Exhibitions Examine the Art of the American Side Show by Laura C. Mallonee Republican American, March 1, Coney Island R us by Tracey O'Shaughnessy Hyperallergic, Feb. 24, Mapplethorpe's Other Man by Larissa Archer WNPR, Feb. 24, Where We Live: The Lore and Lure of Coney Island by Betsy Kaplan and John Dankosky The Boston Globe, Feb. 24, Frame by Frame: Behind «Agbota,» an artist's irony and imagination by Sebastian Smee Real Simple, March 2015, A Life in Full Antiques and the Arts Weekly, Feb. 20, Step Right Art Newspaper, September 2015, Wadsworth relives Gilded Age glory days in grand reopening by Julia Halperin The New York Times, Aug. 31, The Wadsworth Atheneum in Hartford Puts Final Touches on a Comeback by Ted Loos The Independent, Aug. 28, Warhol and Mapplethorpe capture each other by Charlotte Cripps The Hartford Courant, Aug. 18, Three «Aspects of Portraiture» at Wadsworth by Susan Dunne The Hartford Courant, July 16, Vibrant Paintings of Modernist Peter Blume at Wadsworth by Susan Dunne The Boston Globe, June 30, Hank Willis Thomas's slick image masks a closed door by Sebastian Smee The Boston Globe, June 25, Bradford enters MATRIX at Wadsworth Atheneum by Sebastian Smee Hartford Courant, June 25, Artist Creates Site - Specific «Pull Painting» at Atheneum by Susan Dunne Observer, June 16, A Peek Inside Hartford's Wadsworth Atheneum as It Preps for a Grand Reopening by Alanna Martinez The Wall Street Journal, June 5, Madrid's Thyssen Offers the Dark Religiosity of Zurbarán by J.S. Marcus Art New England, May / June 2015, Reviving the Grande Dame by Susan Rand Brown Humanities, May / June 2015, The Coney Island Exhibition That Captures Its Highs and Lows by Tom Christopher The Magazine Antiques, May / June 2015, Visions of Coney Island by Robin Jaffee Frank The New York Times, April 19, An American Dreamland, From the Beginning by Sylviane Gold Artes Magazine, April 16, At Hartford's Atheneum: «Coney Island: Visions of an American Dreamland, 1861 - 2008» by Richard Friswell Hartford Courant, April 9, Sideshow Mind Game at Atheneum by Susan Dunne Hyperallergic, March 4, Two Exhibitions Examine the Art of the American Side Show by Laura C. Mallonee Republican American, March 1, Coney Island R us by Tracey O'Shaughnessy Hyperallergic, Feb. 24, Mapplethorpe's Other Man by Larissa Archer WNPR, Feb. 24, Where We Live: The Lore and Lure of Coney Island by Betsy Kaplan and John Dankosky The Boston Globe, Feb. 24, Frame by Frame: Behind «Agbota,» an artist's irony and imagination by Sebastian Smee Real Simple, March 2015, A Life in Full Antiques and the Arts Weekly, Feb. 20, Step Right Art New England, May / June 2015, Reviving the Grande Dame by Susan Rand Brown Humanities, May / June 2015, The Coney Island Exhibition That Captures Its Highs and Lows by Tom Christopher The Magazine Antiques, May / June 2015, Visions of Coney Island by Robin Jaffee Frank The New York Times, April 19, An American Dreamland, From the Beginning by Sylviane Gold Artes Magazine, April 16, At Hartford's Atheneum: «Coney Island: Visions of an American Dreamland, 1861 - 2008» by Richard Friswell Hartford Courant, April 9, Sideshow Mind Game at Atheneum by Susan Dunne Hyperallergic, March 4, Two Exhibitions Examine the Art of the American Side Show by Laura C. Mallonee Republican American, March 1, Coney Island R us by Tracey O'Shaughnessy Hyperallergic, Feb. 24, Mapplethorpe's Other Man by Larissa Archer WNPR, Feb. 24, Where We Live: The Lore and Lure of Coney Island by Betsy Kaplan and John Dankosky The Boston Globe, Feb. 24, Frame by Frame: Behind «Agbota,» an artist's irony and imagination by Sebastian Smee Real Simple, March 2015, A Life in Full Antiques and the Arts Weekly, Feb. 20, Step Right Art of the American Side Show by Laura C. Mallonee Republican American, March 1, Coney Island R us by Tracey O'Shaughnessy Hyperallergic, Feb. 24, Mapplethorpe's Other Man by Larissa Archer WNPR, Feb. 24, Where We Live: The Lore and Lure of Coney Island by Betsy Kaplan and John Dankosky The Boston Globe, Feb. 24, Frame by Frame: Behind «Agbota,» an artist's irony and imagination by Sebastian Smee Real Simple, March 2015, A Life in Full Antiques and the Arts Weekly, Feb. 20, Step Right Up!

I don't think you'd be far wrong to see it as simultaneously a riff on op art (a term coined by Time magazine the same year as Greenberg's Post Painterly show), a metaphor for the fluidity of U.S. race relations and a sort of tidying up of what Brummel calls «the thick, frayed brushstrokes» of Franz Kline and the bulbous forms of Robert Motherwell, both of whom worked largely in black and white.