optical art
Vision-fooling paintings
Optical art is a style of abstract visual art that uses geometric patterns, high contrast, and precise arrangements to create illusions of movement, vibration, or depth.
The viewer's eye perceives motion or shifting where none exists.
Op art emerged in the 1960s, with Bridget Riley among its best-known practitioners.
Often shortened to op art.
- afterimageLingering visual impression
- illusionMisleading sensory impression
- color fieldArt of saturated expanses
- BauhausInfluential modernist design school
- dazzleImpress through radiance
moiré · contrast · tessellation · color theory · figure-ground · impossible geometry · pattern · symmetry · repetition · stripes · vibrating · checkerboard · geometry · vortex · perception · psychedelic · zigzag · hypnotic
- abstract artabstract expressionism, abstraction, expressionism, abstract composition, non-figurative
- Light Artlight sculpture, light installation, light installations, light painting, light show
- kinetic artmobiles, kinetic sculpture, mobile, hanging mobile, automata
- Geometric Abstractiongeometric shapes, geometric pattern, constructivism, suprematism, hard-edge painting
optical artfigurative art
Art depicting recognizable subjects
realism · photorealism · naturalism · portraiture · landscape painting
optical artabstract expressionism
Nonrepresentational art emphasizing spontaneous emotion
action painting · expressionism · outsider art · lyrical abstraction · folk art
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