Sentences with phrase «of op art»

Equally striking is Stabile, a geometric influenced by the work of Op Art painter Victor Vasarely.

the perception of the visual stands at the root of the Op art movement.

Bridget Louise Riley (born 24 April 1931) is an English painter who is one of the foremost exponents of Op art.

The latest — a bright panoply of Op Art, shaped paintings and stained canvases — features artists known, sort of and not at all, including Richard Anuszkiewicz, Alvin Loving Jr., Paul Jenkins, Julian Stanczak and Bill Komodore.

Art historians credit Vasarely with painting some of the earliest examples of Op Art.

In the mid-sixties — Soto having initially been friendly with Victor Vasarely — disparaging of op art and keen to distance himself and those who were working in the area of kinetic art from it, Soto stated: «Vasarely is an optical painter, who worked in the spirit of the Bauhaus, but who remains a two - dimensional painter.

The origins of Op Art go back to pre-war painting theories, including the constructivist ideas of the 1920s Bauhaus design school in Germany, which stressed the importance of the overall formal design, in creating a specific visual effect.

She began painting large canvases using techniques inspired by artists such as Josef Albers and Bridget Riley and made use of various stratagems of Op Art.

Bridget Louise Riley CH CBE is an English painter who is one of the foremost proponents of Op art.

Artworks with moving components or art that gives the impression of movement through optical effects, as with some examples of Op Art.

Covering the most influential figures of the Op art movement, such as Victor Vasarely, Bridget Riley, François Morellet, Julio Le Parc and Gianni Colombo, among others, it provides an in - depth analysis of the movement and its historical precedents.

He became known as a progenitor of Op Art, which took its name from that show.

The artist's paintings — sleek, scintillating, seductive, groovy — were said to have a «painterly expressiveness,» per Donald Judd, which made them stand out from other kinds of Op art production.

From 2010 to 2016, D. Wigmore Fine Art, a New York gallery, mounted six group shows examining different aspects of Op Art, including its manifestations in Ohio; the shows featured Mr. Stanczak's work prominently.

It is a dynamic sensory experience, evoking the visual play of Op Art, combined with the commercially driven message making of graphic design.

Known as one of the founding members of the Op Art movement, she worked initially in black, white and grey, introducing colour in 1967.

Emerging from her studies about the time of the Op Art movement and that seminal exhibition, The Responsive Eye, presented at the Museum of Modern Art in New York in 1965 and organized by William C. Seitz, Rector could not help but be influenced by the hard - edge structures, dizzying lines, geometric forms and high key and high contrast colors that created optical and illusory effects challenging visual perception.

Bridget Riley test the limits of her Op art style with a new show at the Courtauld Gallery inspired by George Seurat's spotty Post Impressionism

Sometimes hues were tamped down, but just as often they were high - keyed and brash, giving certain drawings — I'm thinking of a composition of snaking orange and green bands — the retinal hilarity of Op Art.

In his painting, he produced a spate of De Stijl type works reminiscent of Theo van Doesburg (1883 - 1931) and Piet Mondrian (1872 - 1944), and for a short time in the mid-1960s, he explored the edges of Op Art in his use of geometric layouts and colour contrasts that investigated perceptual ambiguities.

2004 Stefan Stux Gallery, New York, New York, «Julian Stanczak, Master of Op Art: Highlights of the Past 40 Years» South Texas Institute for the Arts, Corpus Christi, Texas, «Julian Stanczak: Op Art Painting»

2006 Eckert Fine Art, Naples, Florida, «Julian Stanczak: Master of Op Art» Miami University Art Museum, Oxford, Ohio, «Julian Stanczak: Constellation Series Paintings» Wisconsin Union Galleries, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin, «Intersecting Pathways: Julian and Barbara Stanczak» McClain Fine Art, Houston, Texas, «Julian Stanczak: Forty Years of Painting»

2001 Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami, Coral Gables, Florida, «Julian Stanczak, OP = Visual Poetics: 50 Year Retrospective» Midland Center for the Arts, Midland, Michigan, «Julian Stanczak: Decades of Color» Frederick R. Weisman Museum of Art, Pepperdine University, Malibu, California, «Julian Stanczak: Pioneer of Op Art, 50 Year Retrospective» Cleveland Institute of Art, Cleveland, Ohio, «Julian Stanczak: 50 Year Retrospective»

2011 David Richard Contemporary, Julian Stanczak: Elusive Transparencies, David Richard Contemporary Karabenick, Julie, «An Interview with Artist Julian Stanczak», Geoform Safak Gunes Gokduman, «From Labour Camps to the Summit of OP ART: Julian Stanczak», RH + Art Magazine Olesiak, Henryk, «Pomnik», Jacek Olesiak — Kraków Olesiak, Henryk, «Romantycznosc i kiszana kapusta», Swieradow Zdroj

The earlier paintings were discussed in terms of op art.

Juliο Le Parc is a forerunner of Op Art and Kinetic Art, a founder member of Groupe de Recherche d'Art Visuel, he is a forthright, committed artist.

Next to it, Wayne Gonzales's more traditionally abstract painting layers concentric hourglass shapes of white into a hazy reformulation of Op Art.

Often considered the «grandfather» of Op Art, French - Hungarian artist Victor Vasarely began creating mind - bending paintings as early as the 1930s, leveraging his studies of science, color, and optics to produce images that seemed to move, swell, or change forms.

, 2015 also sideswipe racial connotation with color as racial terminology, while also ratcheting up the artist's litany of Op art effects, ranging from Mr. Ryman's sly use of chromatic underpainting to Jasper Johns» shifting avalanche of cross-hatch marks.

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.

Fashion brands soon popularized the bold patterns of Op Art through their «Mod» designs, while art critics like Clement Greenberg critiqued the movement for its gimmicks and commercial appeal.

In post war decades, the abstract expressionism slid into different fields of op art and geometric abstraction in United States, while the European answer was the invention of lyrical abstraction, art informel and political abstraction in the works of CoBrA members Karel Appel, Constant and Asger Jorn.

Larger works like DNA: Black Painting: Ph Bk / B Cert: II, 2015 also sideswipe racial connotation with color as racial terminology, while also ratcheting up the artist's litany of Op art effects, ranging from Mr. Ryman's sly use of chromatic underpainting to Jasper Johns» shifting avalanche of cross-hatch marks.

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.

The third exhibit features contemporary works that build on concerns similar to those of Op Art, and the fourth explores the influence of European and Latin American artists from the original exhibit.

The imagery appears to extend or recede from the surface of the picture plane through the artist's carefully developed variations on colour theory and architectural elements with influences of Op art and Mathematical perspectives.

Featuring more than 34 objects by 17 artists, Post-Op: «The Responsive Eye» Fifty Years After focuses primarily on the artists and their interests in visual perception and less on the cultural phenomenon of Op Art per se.

The prejudices some gallery owners held against women and Latin American artists put her at a disadvantage, as did the fact that her work, some of which prefigured the later trends of Op art and Hard - edged Minimalism, was out of step with the period's fashion for Abstract Expressionism.

It's odd, really — the wood grain, so inert on its own, is suddenly transformed into a violent gesture, as though even the most unassuming of natural phenomena would look feral next to the mechanical absolutes of Op Art abstraction.

«He's one of the minority of Op Art artists who is as interested in what you don't see as what you do see,» Frank said.

I began my own museum career toward the end of the op art «craze» and was amazed, walking through Post-Op, at how fresh the paintings and constructions still are.

Many of the Op Art artists worked in black and white, as Benkert did.

The Independent Group's room premiered works of Op art alongside film posters, collages, murals, films and a jukebox, and was Britain's introduction to the phenomenon later named Pop.

See the excellent first show by Brent Wadden, a young Canadian - born painter who has set aside his brushes and taken up weaving, making thick rug - like abstractions whose jagged, interlocking shapes have the wobble of Op Art except softened by vagaries of color, texture and edge.

Julian Stanczak's Constellation Series is the most recent collection of vibrant paintings by one of the leaders of the Op Art movement.

The exhibition features new works from the artist's Kite paintings series, which combines aspects of Op Art and Color Field Theory, intermingled with concepts from Rosalind Krauss» theory of Sculpture in the Expanded Field.

Bridget Riley (b. 1931) is one of the foremost exponents of Op Art, a style that plays with human perception to produce optically illusionistic works of art.

In his Times review of the exhibition «Julian Stanczak Master of Op Art: Highlights of the Past 40 years,» Kenneth Johnson writes:

«She was one of the premier practitioners of Op Art, and she's remained stalwart in her dedication throughout her career to this single - minded inquiry into the visual play of how colors relate to one another,» says John Berggruen.

He first came to wide public recognition when he was included in the enormously popular exhibition The Responsive Eye at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1965, which greatly contributed to the public awareness of the Op Art movement.