This year marks the 50th anniversary of MoMA's
seminal Op art survey The Responsive Eye, so expect plenty more shows examining the movement's legacy and key artists (including The Illusive Eye, coming in 2016 to El Museo del Barrio).
Not exact matches
In 1965, New York's Museum of Modern
Art included this work in the
seminal exhibition of
Op Art called «The Responsive Eye.»
Post-
Op and its successor exhibits examine the «roster» of artists from that
seminal exhibition and compares and contrasts those artists» endeavors, both during and after the
Op Art «craze» of the mid-1960s.
David Richard Gallery Presents «Post-
Op: «The Responsive Eye» Fifty Years After», The First In A Series Of Exhibitions Reviewing
Seminal MoMA Exhibition Post-
Op: «The Responsive Eye» Fifty Years After, the first in a series of presentations commemorating the fiftieth anniversary of the ground - breaking «
Op Art» exhibition organized by William C. Seitz at the Museum of Modern
Art, focuses on the aesthetic pursuits and choices during the careers of a select group of American artists who were included in The Responsive Eye.
Post-
Op and its successor exhibits examines the «roster» of artists from that
seminal exhibition and compares and contrasts those artists» endeavors both during and after the
Op Art «craze» of the mid-1960s.
Some of his paintings, which appear at first glance to be
Op art — esque abstractions, use images directly from pop culture: Mainframe (all works 2013), for example, displays the artist's penchant for sci - fi refulgence as it visually mimics a backdrop from Stanley Kubrick's
seminal 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968).
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.
Van Elk was included in almost all key exhibitions of conceptual
art, notably Arte Povera, Amalfi, 1968,
Op losse schoeven, Amsterdam, 1969 and in the same year, Harald Szeemann's
seminal exhibition When Attitudes Become Form, Bern and London.