Sentences with phrase «popular op art»

Julian Stanczak, a Polish - born American abstract painter who rose to fame as a leading figure of the popular Op Art movement but slipped into obscurity when its reputation flagged, died on March 25 at his home in Seven Hills, Ohio, a Cleveland suburb.

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He was included in «The Responsive Eye,» the Museum of Modern Art's popular survey of Op Art in 1965, and had his first solo show in New York at the Betty Parsons Gallery in 1966.

The style became wildly popular in the swinging»60s, when psycholodelic designs infiltrated fashion, design, and art — but Op Art was more than just a treart — but Op Art was more than just a treArt was more than just a trend.

An art form popular in the United States in the «70s and introduced in the Netherlands through exhibitions such as «Op Losse Schroeven» (1969) in the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam and «Sonsbeek Buiten de Perken» (1971) in Arnhem.

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.

While the term became widely popular to refer to the particular kind of paintings Op artists tend to create, many of the artists didn't like the term and preferred for their work to be referred to as perceptual art instead.

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.

Unlike Pop art which drew on imagery from popular culture, however, Op art was a style of abstraction that relied on geometric shapes, lines, and color juxtapositions to create optical illusions for the viewer.

He lists as examples Op Art (think Bauhaus) and Abstract Expressionism (Mark Rothko and others), as well as popular culture iconography.

Its bold and colourful spirals are an ode to the op art movement popular at the time.