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Op art

Op art, also known as optical art, is a style[1] of visual art that makes use of optical illusions"Optical art is a method of painting concerning the interaction between illusion and picture plane, between understanding and seeing"[2] Op art works are abstract, with many of the better known pieces made in only black and white When the viewer looks at them, the impression is given of movement, hidden images, flashing and vibration, patterns, or alternatively, of swelling or warpingOp art is derived from the constructivist practices of the Bauhaus This German school, founded by Walter Gropius, stressed the relationship of form and function within a framework of analysis and rationality Students were taught to focus on the overall design, or entire composition, in order to present unified works When the Bauhaus was forced to close in 1933, many of its instructors fled to the United States where the movement took root in Chicago and eventually at the Black Mountain College in Asheville, North Carolina, where Anni and Josef Albers would come to teach[citation needed]The term first appeared in print in Time magazine in October 1964 in response to Julian Stanczak's show Optical Paintings at the Martha Jackson gallery,[3] though works which might now be described as "Op art" had been produced for several years previously For instance, Victor Vasarely's painting, Zebras (1938), is made up entirely of curvilinear black and white stripes that are not contained by contour lines Consequently, the stripes appear to both meld into and burst forth from the surrounding background of the composition Also the early black and white Dazzle panels of John McHale installed at the This Is Tomorrow exhibit in 1956 and his Pandora series at the Institute of Contemporary Arts in 1962 demonstrate proto-op tendencies

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In the 1960s Arnold Schmidt (Arnold Alfred Schmidt) had several solo exhibitions of his large, black and white shaped optical paintings exhibited at the Terrain Gallery in New York[4] The term "Op" irritated many of the artists labeled under it, specifically including Albers and Stanczak They had discussed upon the birth of the term a better label, namely perceptual art


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