This geometric op art drawing features bands of concentric circles with the full spectrum colors...
At this early stage, his works were mostly done in
a geometric Op art style that drew ideas from both Bauhaus and Minimalist theory, while by the mid-sixties, he moved away from the optical, scientific aspect of his work and toward a more poetic and painterly direction.
Not exact matches
Particularly,
op art — short for «optical
art» — prints have been one of the most known
geometric prints for mod style.
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.
One of the most enduring practitioners of
Op art, Bridget Riley will have her first exhibition with David Zwirner gallery, showcasing decades of her stripe paintings and other
geometric compositions that confound viewers» eyes.
The bindi becomes a language or code we begin to read through works that elicit formal connections with abstract expressionism,
op art, and
geometric abstraction from Western painting and the tantric and neo-tantric traditions of India.
Curated by Jorge Daniel Veneciano, «The Illusive Eye» offers a broad intellectual context for
Op art,
Geometric Abstraction, and Kinetic
art.
The new 176 - page monograph, Edna Andrade, takes a comprehensive look at the full range of Andrade's work, from her early surreal and figurative landscapes, through several decades of Bauhaus - inspired design and the distinctive
geometric patterns of
Op Art, to her late - life quasi-abstract studies of the Atlantic coastline.
Andrade is widely known for her contributions to the field of
Op Art, but unlike the retinal interventions of her contemporaries Victor Vasarely or Bridget Riley, Andrade's meditative,
geometric abstractions developed towards explorations of pattern networks, spatial abstractions of architectonic volumes, and landscapes.
Ricardo Paniagua: Hard Edge in Da Paint
Geometric,
Op Art - related works by the Dallas artist, who told Glasstire in March that his work emerges out of «the opposition of energetics.
The exhibition includes several of Andrade's major
Op art paintings, which combine hard - edged
geometric forms and lines into illusory, and sometimes hallucinatory, compositions.
The term came to refer to the work of artists who playfully flirted with
Op art, Minimalism, and
geometric abstraction with an emphasis on transcendentalist levity, boundary - dissolving luminescence, and — in place of New York Minimalism's hard - edged industrial materials — an embrace of cutting - edge space - age fabrication methods.
ICA's exhibition will focus on paintings from 1963 through 1986: a period when Andrade followed a distinctly optical course, and one which historically coincides with
Op Art, Minimalism, and Pattern and Decoration Painting — movements in art that relate to the pure pursuit of geometric and abstract desi
Art, Minimalism, and Pattern and Decoration Painting — movements in
art that relate to the pure pursuit of geometric and abstract desi
art that relate to the pure pursuit of
geometric and abstract design.
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.
Combining artistic technique with scientific curiosity, the work attributed to the
Op Art movement has gone on to influence abstract and geometric art for decad
Art movement has gone on to influence abstract and
geometric art for decad
art for decades.
Richard Anuszkiewicz's mesmerizing
geometric compositions of saturated bright colors are a hallmark of the
Op Art movement.
Edna Andrade: Drawings (1958 - 1993), 2010 76 pages, Softcover Published by Locks
Art Publications ISBN: 978 -1-879173-68-2 Philadelphia artist Edna Andrade (1917 - 2008) was revered for her mastery of
Op Art technique and hard - edge
geometric abstraction.
Yet her paintings are compelling, composed of lines and
geometric shapes that trap and mislead the eye in a manner reminiscent of Bridget Riley's
Op Art.
Herrera's
geometric, hard - edged abstract paintings, influenced by her university degree in architecture and singularly focused on the interactions of space and color, prefigure the
Op Art and Minimalism of artists like Ellsworth Kelly, Frank Stella, and Kenneth Noland.
The exhibition title itself is a literal reference to the historical terminology Hard - Edge painting; which was first coined in the late fifties and used to describe intense and abrupt delineation of color within the burgeoning
Geometric Abstraction and
Op -
art movements.
Short for «Optical
Art,»
Op Art is characterized by
geometric patterns that seem to vibrate, swirl, or bend as you view them.
abstract, architecture, exhibition, form, Galerie Paris - Beijing,
geometric, grid, industrial, infinite, light
art, neon lights,
op art, Paris, sculpture, space, structure, technology, void
Hard - edge painting,
geometric abstraction, appropriation, hyperrealism, photorealism, expressionism, minimalism, lyrical abstraction, pop
art,
op art, abstract expressionism, color field painting, monochrome painting, neo-expressionism, collage, intermedia painting, assemblage painting, digital painting, postmodern painting, Neo-Dada painting, shaped canvas painting, environmental mural painting, traditional figure painting, landscape painting, portrait painting, are a few continuing and current directions in painting at the beginning of the 21st century.
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...
These provide instant, ready - made abstract compositions; their
geometric shapes and rainbow palette again aesthetically reference the 60s in the form of Bridget Riley «s colourful
Op Art canvases or, more recently, Gerhard Richter's painstakingly uniform «colour swatch» paintings.
Contino was immediately attracted to the experimental edge of
Geometric Abstraction and
Op Art.
Digital
art, hard - edge painting,
geometric abstraction, minimalism, lyrical abstraction,
op art, abstract expressionism, color field painting, monochrome painting, assemblage, neo-Dada, shaped canvas painting, are a few directions relating to abstraction in the second half of the 20th century.
Centrum sztuki, Elblag, Poland
Op Art Revisited, Albright - Knox
Art Gallery, Buffalo, USA The Rational Eye -
Geometric, Optical, Kinetic and Programmed
Art, International Centre of Graphic
Arts (MGLC), Ljubljana, Slovenia To Infinity and Beyond: Mathematics in Contemporary
Art, Heckscher Museum of
Art, Huntington, USA Sensory Overload: Light, Motion, Sound and the Optical in
Art Since 1945 - Milwaukee
Art Museum, Milwaukee, USA
The presentations have addressed specific decades and geographies as well as certain movements and tendencies, including Color Field,
geometric and hard - edge abstraction,
Op Art, Pop
Art, Minimalism, Feminism, and Conceptualism in a variety of media.
His research on
geometric shapes and the interaction of colors remodeled the 20th century
art scene, attempting to provide an alternative to Abstract Expressionism and concepts such as color - field painting,
geometric abstraction and
op art.
David Richard Gallery specializes in post-war abstract
art, including abstract expressionism, color field,
geometric and hard - edge painting,
op art, pop
art, minimalism, feminism and conceptualism in a variety of media.
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...
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.
«Under the Dome: A Powerful, Brainy Show of Pop,
Op,
Geometric Art,» The Montreal Star, May 13, 1967, Entertainment, p. 4.
Titled «Coutorama», the collection was heavily inspired by the black and white
geometric patterns of English painter Bridget Riley, one of the leading exponents of
Op -
Art.
What you experience down below is an essay on the many varieties of abstract
art, from hard - edged
geometric, to reconfigured Abstract Expressionism, to
Op, to riffs on minimalist sculpture.
An
art gallery in Santa Fe, David Richard Gallery specializes in post-war abstract
art including Abstract Expressionism, Color Field,
geometric, hard - edged,
Op, Pop, Minimalism and conceptualism in a variety of media.
DOROTHY SECKLER: I think it's rather phenomenal the success and the critical attention paid the show in the middle of a season in which most offerings were either
geometric abstraction,
Op art, Minimal, Pop or sort of things in which the artist would be working much more conceptually as opposed to intuitively and in which the forms would be, in most cases, more
geometric.
A refinement of Hard Edge Painting,
Op -
Art was a type of non-objective art which employed black and white geometric patterns to create a variety of optical effects on the viewer's physiology and psychology of percepti
Art was a type of non-objective
art which employed black and white geometric patterns to create a variety of optical effects on the viewer's physiology and psychology of percepti
art which employed black and white
geometric patterns to create a variety of optical effects on the viewer's physiology and psychology of perception.
Bridget Riley (b. 1931) Leader of British
Op -
Art movement, a form of geometric abstract a
Art movement, a form of
geometric abstract
artart.
The Hard - edge painting style is related to
Geometric abstraction,
Op Art, Post-painterly Abstraction, and Color Field painting.
The combined forces of his formal training, quick graffiti chops, and expert skills as a draftsman, along with multiple artistic influences (Mexican Muralists, tramp
art, surfer culture, graffiti from the 1970s and 1980s, the beat poets,
geometric abstraction,
op art, early video and site - specific works, graphic design, typography, and cartoons) have factored into his unwieldy, yet unmistakable visual lexicon.
The founders invited their friends and younger artists to exhibit at their gallery where together they explored cutting edge and experimental
art that included geometric abstraction, Op Art, shaped canvases, minimalism and large - scale sculptu
art that included
geometric abstraction,
Op Art, shaped canvases, minimalism and large - scale sculptu
Art, shaped canvases, minimalism and large - scale sculpture.
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 and contemporary styles represented in the collection include precisionism, surrealism, abstract expressionism,
geometric abstraction, pop and
op art, Fluxus, photo realism, and minimalism, as well as works that explore social and political issues.
In their work they fuse artistic styles of
geometric abstraction,
op art, and neo-futurism, with street
art, architecture and design, thus illuminating a new, futuristic construction of contemporary
geometric abstraction.
Op Art is often characterized as having reductive
geometric forms and hard edges, and as being linear and abstract.
«Their sensibilities,» he writes, «oriented toward systematic investigation and the evolution of coherent form, maintain throughout their careers whether or not their latest practice diverged from
op art or even from
geometric abstraction in general.
David Richard Gallery is located in the Santa Fe Railyard
Arts District and specializes in post-war abstract
art including Abstract Expressionism, Color Field,
geometric, hard - edged,
Op, Pop and Minimalism in a variety of media.
It was the driving force of the artistic experimentation offensive (pop,
op, settings and
geometric art) that bursts in the mid-60 «s in Lima.