The term Op Art first appeared in a 1964 Time Magazine article that sought to contextualize exhibitions such as Stanczak's first solo show at Martha Jackson Gallery, «Optical Paintings,» which had opened in September of that same year.
In 1964, Time Magazine first used
the term Op Art to describe the paintings at a Julian Stanczak show.
Today
the term Op Art is understood by most art lovers, curators, educators and collectors to refer to a kind of trippy, geometric art that tricks the eye into perceiving movement, space and light where none actually exists.
But at the time, MoMA never used
the term Op Art to refer to the work in the show.
Time Magazine coined
the term op art in 1964, in response to Julian Stanczak's show Optical Paintings at the Martha Jackson Gallery, to mean a form of abstract art (specifically non-objective art) that uses optical illusions.
Not exact matches
And in the «happening» mid-60s,
Op (an abbreviated
term for optical illusion)
Art came on the scene, just in time to mesh nicely with the psychedelic music.
Characterized by mathematically complex compositions of color, shape and dizzying pattern, the
term «
Op Art,» was first used by artist Donald Judd in his review of Julian Stanczak's «Optical Paintings,» and was later popularized by a 1964 Time magazine article, catapulted the
term into main - stream use.
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.
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.
The exhibition's title Julian Stanczak: Optical Paintings played on the growing talk of the «optical» style; the exhibition led artist and critic Donald Judd to use the
term «
Op Art» for the first time in print in his review of the exhibition for
Arts Magazine.
Soon after the ground - breaking Le Mouvement show, Denise René's position as the champion of
Op and Kinetic
art were cemented, and by 1965, the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) solicited her help in assembling the historical exhibition, The Responsive Eye, where the term «Op and Kinetic Art» was first formally recognis
art were cemented, and by 1965, the Museum of Modern
Art (MoMA) solicited her help in assembling the historical exhibition, The Responsive Eye, where the term «Op and Kinetic Art» was first formally recognis
Art (MoMA) solicited her help in assembling the historical exhibition, The Responsive Eye, where the
term «
Op and Kinetic
Art» was first formally recognis
Art» was first formally recognised.
As part of the interest in exhibition history, the «remembering exhibition,» the
term introduced by
art historian Reesa Greenberg, has a special place.8 In the past five years alone, remembering exhibitions have been organized in the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam reflecting on Bewogen Beweging (Moving Movement)(1961) and
Op losse Schroeven.
By constantly developing «Neometry» (a geometric based
Op -
art made with a primarily neon based palette, as he titled his work), the artist produced some of his most complex pieces yet — in
terms of sizes, shapes, colors, and general concepts or visual effects.
The earlier paintings were discussed in
terms of
op art.
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.
Donald Judd, the artist and critic often credited with originating the
term «
Op art,» once wrote that Stanczak's work had a «painterly expressiveness,» making it different from other
Op art that privileged formal experimentation over engaging viewers.
The
Op art, or optical
art, is a
term used to describe certain artistic research that started in the 1960s which exploit the reliability of the eye through illusions or optical games.
Op Art (a term coined in 1964 by Time magazine) is a form of abstract art (specifically non-objective art) which relies on optical illusions in order to fool the eye of the view
Art (a
term coined in 1964 by Time magazine) is a form of abstract
art (specifically non-objective art) which relies on optical illusions in order to fool the eye of the view
art (specifically non-objective
art) which relies on optical illusions in order to fool the eye of the view
art) which relies on optical illusions in order to fool the eye of the viewer.
After studying under Josef Albers at Yale, Stanczak and his peers soared into international prominence for their involvement with
Op Art, a
term named after Stanczak's first solo exhibition in New York City in 1964.