Using geometric shapes to create optical illusions.An art movement originating from the sixties, which creates the illusion of moving images. Sixties designers used op-art on everything from chairs to whole interiors in black and white to give a disorientating, hallucinatory feel.
A modern art movement and style in which artists created very effective images having the novelty of optical illusions as the main focus of the artwork.
"Optical Painting", a 1960s movement characterized by geometrical forms that create an optical illusion in which the eye is required to blend the colours at a certain distance.
An abstract art movement based on creating optical effects usually in black and white which encourage the viewer to see visual illusions.
(Optical Art) - A style of art (middle of 20th century) that uses optical (visual) illusions of many types. These works of art are composed to confuse, heighten or expand visual sensations.
a style of abstractionism popular in the 1960s; produces dramatic visual effects with colors and contrasts that are difficult for the eye to resolve
An abstract movement in Europe and the United States, begun in the mid-1950s, based on the effects of optical patterns. Albers worked in this style.
A type of 1960s Abstract Art that played with optical effects on the eye.
An art movement of the twentieth century in which artists use optical illusion to create the impression of movement.
Short for Optical Art, a style popular in the 1960s that was based on optical principles and optical illusion. Op Art deals in complex color interactions, to the point where colors and lines seem to vibrate before the eyes
from the early 1960's, an abstract style of art. This style is unique in its attempt to show movement on the surface by using optical illusion.
an art movement of the 1950 whose main concerns were hard-edge painting using colour and optics as its main theme
Short for Optical Art, a style popular in the 1960s that was based on optical principles and optical illusion in which artists sought to create an impression of movement on the picture surface.
Style with graphic abstraction and pattern-oriented optical effects (mid. 20th c).
Op art, also known as optical art, is used to describe some paintings and other works of art which use optical illusions. Op art is also referred to as geometric abstraction and hard-edge abstraction, although the preferred term for it is perceptual abstraction. The term "Op" bears resemblance to the other popular movement of the 1960s, Pop Art though one can be certain such monikers were invoked for their catchiness and not for any stylistic similiarities.