Op Art
Vibrating geometric abstraction
Op Art is a style of abstract visual art that creates optical illusions through precise geometric patterns, contrasting colors, and repetitive forms.
The effect tricks the eye into perceiving movement, vibration, or depth on a flat surface.
The term—short for Optical Art—emerged in the 1960s with artists like Bridget Riley and Victor Vasarely.
The museum's Op Art exhibition gave me a headache.
- opticalOf vision or light
- optical illusionMisleading visual perception
- illusionMisleading sensory impression
- geometricRelating to mathematical shapes
- vibratingTrembling rapidly in place
kinetic · patterns · dazzle · pulsating · black and white · stripes · movement · motion blur · psychedelic · checkerboard · hypnotic · retinal · perception · sixties · zigzag · warping · spirals · afterimage
- contemporary artcontemporary artists, mixed media, installations, sculpture, projection mapping
- 1960s ArtMinimalism, Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein, Robert Rauschenberg, Yoko Ono
- abstract artabstract expressionism, abstraction, expressionism, abstract composition, non-figurative
- art movementsImpressionism, impressionism, Surrealism, surrealism, Cubism
- sixties fashionminiskirt, go-go boots, shift dress, A-line dress, Mary Quant
- aestheticsaesthetics, aesthetic, beauty, beautiful, ugly
Op ArtRealism
Movement depicting ordinary life
Surrealism · narrative art · figurative art · portrait painting · religious art
Op ArtAbstract Expressionism
Gestural, nonrepresentational American painting movement
automatism · drip painting · freehand drawing · Jackson Pollock · impasto
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