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optical art
noun
Op art.
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Among the painting highlights are Bridget Riley's "Untitled" (1966), a masterpiece of optical art.
The museum houses towering panels of brightly coloured optical art: are those cubes really flat?
But the designer knows that optical art has to impregnate, not overwhelm, the designs.
This collection was worked in bias-cut panels to graze the body and dosed with optical art.
This weekend's activities, in Building 14, include making optical art stamps, nature headdresses and tissue-paper flowers.
Op art, also called optical art, branch of mid-20th-century geometric abstract art that deals with optical illusion.
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In the latter case, she produces optical art-inspired works that toy with human perception.
This week's bloody episode is titled "Trompe L'Oeil," French for "deceive the eye" and a term used in visual art for creating optical illusions that a painting seem three dimensional.
All those Riley paintings appropriated for optical-art dresses and T-shirts, with their stark black-and-whites, and as the covers of LPs (The Faust Tapes from 1973 springs to mind) located her works as an adjunct to fashion.
Sharp contrasts often underscore the sheer optical force art can muster.
Zimmer, who works and resides in Cleveland, OH, draws inspiration from the 60s movement of optical illusion art.
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