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Op art

Index Op art

Op art, short for optical art, is a style of visual art that uses optical illusions. [1]

104 relations: Akiyoshi Kitaoka, Alexander Liberman, Anamorphosis, Andreas Nottebohm, Anni Albers, Anonima group, Arnold Alfred Schmidt, Art, Asheville, North Carolina, Barbara Januszkiewicz, Bauhaus, Black and white, Black Mountain College, Brian De Palma, Bridget Riley, Carlos Cruz-Diez, Checker shadow illusion, Chicago, Chubb illusion, Constructivism (art), Cornsweet illusion, Cubism, Curvature, Dada, Denise René, Digital art, Divisionism, Edna Andrade, Ellsworth Kelly, Figure–ground (perception), François Morellet, Francisco Sobrino, Franco Grignani, Frank Popper, Frank Stella, Futurism, Günter Fruhtrunk, Günther Uecker, Gerhard von Graevenitz, Gestalt psychology, Getulio Alviani, Gianni Colombo, Gordon Hyatt, Grazia Varisco, Gregorio Vardanega, Grisaille, Groupe de Recherche d’Art Visuel, Heinz Mack, Impossible object, Institute of Contemporary Arts, ..., Ivan Picelj, Jean-Pierre Yvaral, Jeffrey Steele (artist), Jesús Rafael Soto, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, John McHale (artist), Josef Albers, Julian Stanczak, Julio Le Parc, Kenneth Snelson, Kinetic art, Labyrinth, László Moholy-Nagy, Lilac chaser, List of Martin Gardner Mathematical Games columns, Ludwig Wilding, M. C. Escher, Mach bands, Marian Zazeela, Martin Gardner, Michael Kidner, Mike Wallace, Multistable perception, Museum of Design, Zürich, Museum of Modern Art, Neo-impressionism, Nicolas Schöffer, Nouvelle tendance, Omar Rayo, Optical illusion, Pattern glare, Pécs, Perception, Pontus Hultén, Psychophysiology, Reginald H. Neal, Richard Allen (abstract artist), Richard Anuszkiewicz, Tavar Zawacki, Terrain Gallery, Theory of Colours, This Is Tomorrow, Tony DeLap, Trompe-l'œil, Vera Molnár, Victor Vasarely, Wake Forest University, Walter Gropius, Wen-Ying Tsai, Yaacov Agam, Yale University, Youri Messen-Jaschin, Zürich, Zero (art). Expand index (54 more) »

Akiyoshi Kitaoka

is a Professor of Psychology at the College of Letters, Ritsumeikan University, Kyoto, Japan.

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Alexander Liberman

Alexander Semeonovitch Liberman (September 4, 1912 – November 19, 1999) was a Russian-American magazine editor, publisher, painter, photographer, and sculptor.

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Anamorphosis

Anamorphosis is a distorted projection or perspective requiring the viewer to use special devices or occupy a specific vantage point (or both) to reconstitute the image.

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Andreas Nottebohm

Andreas Nottebohm, born in 1944, is an American/German artist whose work is associated with Op Art, visionary art, and Space Art.

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Anni Albers

Anni Albers (born Annelise Else Frieda Fleischmann; June 12, 1899 – May 9, 1994) was a German textile artist and printmaker.

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Anonima group

The American artist collaborative, Anonima Group, was founded in Cleveland, Ohio in 1960 by Ernst Benkert, Francis Hewitt and Ed Mieczkowski.

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Arnold Alfred Schmidt

Arnold Alfred Schmidt, born in 1930 in Plainfield, New Jersey, lived most of his life in New York City.

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Art

Art is a diverse range of human activities in creating visual, auditory or performing artifacts (artworks), expressing the author's imaginative, conceptual idea, or technical skill, intended to be appreciated for their beauty or emotional power.

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Asheville, North Carolina

Asheville is a city and the county seat of Buncombe County, North Carolina, United States.

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Barbara Januszkiewicz

Barbara Morrison Januszkiewicz (born February 23, 1955) is an American painter, artist's filmmaker and a creative activist who is best known for her stylistic independence; however, has associations with the pop art movement, conceptual art and avant-garde elements.

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Bauhaus

Staatliches Bauhaus, commonly known simply as Bauhaus, was a German art school operational from 1919 to 1933 that combined crafts and the fine arts, and was famous for the approach to design that it publicized and taught.

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Black and white

Black and white, often abbreviated B/W or B&W, and hyphenated black-and-white when used as an adjective, is any of several monochrome forms in visual arts.

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Black Mountain College

Black Mountain College was an experimental college founded in 1933 by John Andrew Rice, Theodore Dreier, and several others.

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Brian De Palma

Brian Russell De Palma (born September 11, 1940) is an American film director and screenwriter.

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Bridget Riley

Bridget Louise Riley (born 24 April 1931) is an English painter who is one of the foremost exponents of Op art.

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Carlos Cruz-Diez

Carlos Cruz-Diez (born August 17, 1923 in Caracas) is a Venezuelan artist considered to be one of the greatest artistic innovators of the 20th and 21st centuries.

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Checker shadow illusion

The checker shadow illusion is an optical illusion published by Edward H. Adelson, Professor of Vision Science at MIT in 1995.

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Chicago

Chicago, officially the City of Chicago, is the third most populous city in the United States, after New York City and Los Angeles.

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Chubb illusion

The Chubb illusion is an optical illusion or error in visual perception in which the apparent contrast of an object varies substantially to most viewers depending on its relative contrast to the field on which it is displayed.

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Constructivism (art)

Constructivism was an artistic and architectural philosophy that originated in Russia beginning in 1913 by Vladimir Tatlin.

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Cornsweet illusion

The Cornsweet illusion, also known as the Craik–O'Brien–Cornsweet illusion and the Craik–Cornsweet illusion, is an optical illusion that was described in detail by Tom Cornsweet in the late 1960s.

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Cubism

Cubism is an early-20th-century art movement which brought European painting and sculpture historically forward toward 20th century Modern art.

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Curvature

In mathematics, curvature is any of a number of loosely related concepts in different areas of geometry.

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Dada

Dada or Dadaism was an art movement of the European avant-garde in the early 20th century, with early centers in Zürich, Switzerland, at the Cabaret Voltaire (circa 1916); New York Dada began circa 1915, and after 1920 Dada flourished in Paris.

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Denise René

Denise René (born Denise Bleibtreu; June 1913 – 9 July 2012) was a French art gallerist specializing in kinetic art and op art.

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Digital art

Digital art is an artistic work or practice that uses digital technology as an essential part of the creative or presentation process.

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Divisionism

Divisionism (also called chromoluminarism) was the characteristic style in Neo-Impressionist painting defined by the separation of colors into individual dots or patches which interacted optically.

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Edna Andrade

Edna Andrade (January 25, 1917 Portsmouth, Virginia - April 17, 2008 Philadelphia) was an American abstract artist.

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Ellsworth Kelly

Ellsworth Kelly (May 31, 1923 – December 27, 2015) was an American painter, sculptor, and printmaker associated with hard-edge painting, Color Field painting and minimalism.

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Figure–ground (perception)

Figure–ground organization is a type of perceptual grouping which is a vital necessity for recognizing objects through vision.

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François Morellet

François Morellet (30 April 1926 – 10 May 2016) was a French contemporary painter, sculptor, and light artist.

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Francisco Sobrino

Francisco Sobrino (1932 – 11 May 2014) was a Spanish sculptor.

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Franco Grignani

Franco Grignani (February 4, 1908 – 20 February 1999) was an Italian architect, graphic designer and artist.

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Frank Popper

Frank Popper (born April 17, 1918) is a historian of art and technology and Professor Emeritus of Aesthetics and the Science of Art at the University of Paris VIII.

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Frank Stella

Frank Philip Stella (born May 12, 1936) is an American painter, sculptor and printmaker, noted for his work in the areas of minimalism and post-painterly abstraction.

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Futurism

Futurism (Futurismo) was an artistic and social movement that originated in Italy in the early 20th century.

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Günter Fruhtrunk

Günter Fruhtrunk (May, 1923 - 12 December 1982) was a German painter and printmaker, who is classified as a geometric abstract artist and whose work relates to Op Art.

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Günther Uecker

Günther Uecker, also known as Guenther Uecker, (born 13 March 1930) is a German sculptor, op artist and installation artist.

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Gerhard von Graevenitz

Gerhard von Graevenitz (19 September 1934 Schilde, Prignitz/Mark Brandenburg – 20 August 1983, Habkern/Traubachtal) was a German kinetic artist, co-founding member of the Nouvelle Tendance and member of the op-art movement.

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Gestalt psychology

Gestalt psychology or gestaltism (from Gestalt "shape, form") is a philosophy of mind of the Berlin School of experimental psychology.

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Getulio Alviani

Getulio Alviani (5 September 1939 in Udine – 24 February 2018 in Milan) was an Italian painter based in Milan.

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Gianni Colombo

Gianni Colombo (Milan 1933 – Melzo 1993) was an Italian artist, member of the kinetic art movement.

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Gordon Hyatt

Gordon Hyatt is an American writer and television producer.

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Grazia Varisco

Grazia Varisco (born 1937 in Milan) is an Italian visual artist and designer.

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Gregorio Vardanega

Gregorio Vardanega (21 March 1923 – 7 October 2007) was an artist of Italian origins who worked in Argentina and France.

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Grisaille

A grisaille (or; gris 'grey') is a painting executed entirely in shades of grey or of another neutral greyish colour.

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Groupe de Recherche d’Art Visuel

Groupe de Recherche d’Art Visuel (GRAV) (Research Art Group) was a collaborative artists group in Paris that consisted of eleven opto-kinetic artists, like François Morellet, Julio Le Parc, Francisco Sobrino, Horacio Garcia Rossi, Yvaral, Joël Stein and Vera Molnár, who picked up on Victor Vasarely's concept that the sole artist was outdated and which, according to its 1963 manifesto, appealed to the direct participation of the public with an influence on its behavior, notably through the use of interactive labyrinths.

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Heinz Mack

Heinz Mack (born March 8, 1931) is a German artist.

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Impossible object

An impossible object (also known as an impossible figure or an undecidable figure) is a type of optical illusion.

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Institute of Contemporary Arts

The Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA) is an artistic and cultural centre on The Mall in London, just off Trafalgar Square.

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Ivan Picelj

Ivan Picelj (28 July 1924 – 22 February 2011) was a contemporary Croatian painter, sculptor and graphic designer.

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Jean-Pierre Yvaral

Jean-Pierre Vasarely (1934–2002), professionally known as Yvaral, was a French artist working in the fields of op-art and kinetic art from 1954 onwards.

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Jeffrey Steele (artist)

Jeffrey Steele (born 3 July 1931) is an abstract painter.

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Jesús Rafael Soto

Jesús Rafael Soto (June 5, 1923 – January 14, 2005) was a Venezuelan op and kinetic artist, a sculptor and a painter.

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (28 August 1749 – 22 March 1832) was a German writer and statesman.

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John McHale (artist)

John McHale (August 19, 1922 – November 2, 1978) was a British artist, art theorist, sociologist and future studies searcher.

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Josef Albers

Josef Albers (March 19, 1888March 25, 1976) was a German-born American artist and educator whose work, both in Europe and in the United States, formed the basis of modern art education programs of the twentieth century.

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Julian Stanczak

Julian Stanczak (November 5, 1928 – March 25, 2017) was a Polish-born American painter and printmaker.

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Julio Le Parc

Julio Le Parc (born September 23, 1928) is an Argentina-born artist who focuses on both modern op art and kinetic art.

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Kenneth Snelson

Kenneth Duane Snelson (June 29, 1927 – December 22, 2016) was an American contemporary sculptor and photographer.

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Kinetic art

Kinetic art is art from any medium that contains movement perceivable by the viewer or depends on motion for its effect.

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Labyrinth

In Greek mythology, the Labyrinth (Greek: Λαβύρινθος labyrinthos) was an elaborate, confusing structure designed and built by the legendary artificer Daedalus for King Minos of Crete at Knossos.

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László Moholy-Nagy

László Moholy-Nagy (born László Weisz; July 20, 1895 – November 24, 1946) was a Hungarian painter and photographer as well as a professor in the Bauhaus school.

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Lilac chaser

The lilac chaser is a visual illusion, also known as the Pac-Man illusion.

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List of Martin Gardner Mathematical Games columns

Over a period of 24 years (January 1957 – December 1980), Martin Gardner wrote 288 consecutive "Mathematical Games" columns for Scientific American magazine.

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Ludwig Wilding

Ludwig Wilding (19 May 1927 – 4 January 2010) was a German artist whose work is associated with Op art and Kinetic art.

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M. C. Escher

Maurits Cornelis Escher (17 June 1898 – 27 March 1972) was a Dutch graphic artist who made mathematically-inspired woodcuts, lithographs, and mezzotints.

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Mach bands

Mach bands is an optical illusion named after the physicist Ernst Mach.

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Marian Zazeela

Marian Zazeela (born April 15, 1940) is a light-artist, designer, painter and musician based in New York City.

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Martin Gardner

Martin Gardner (October 21, 1914May 22, 2010) was an American popular mathematics and popular science writer, with interests also encompassing scientific skepticism, micromagic, philosophy, religion, and literature—especially the writings of Lewis Carroll, L. Frank Baum, and G. K. Chesterton.

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Michael Kidner

Michael James Kidner (11 September 1917 – 2009) was a pioneer of Op art in the mid-1960s from Kettering, Northamptonshire, England.

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Mike Wallace

Myron Leon "Mike" Wallace (May 9, 1918 – April 7, 2012) was an American journalist, game show host, actor, and media personality.

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Multistable perception

Multistable perception (or Bistable perception) are a form of perceptual phenomena in which there are unpredictable sequences of spontaneous subjective changes.

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Museum of Design, Zürich

The Museum of Design, Zürich (German: Museum für Gestaltung Zürich) is a museum for industrial design, visual communication, architecture, and craft in Zurich, Switzerland.

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Museum of Modern Art

The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) is an art museum located in Midtown Manhattan in New York City, on 53rd Street between Fifth and Sixth Avenues.

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Neo-impressionism

Neo-Impressionism is a term coined by French art critic Félix Fénéon in 1886 to describe an art movement founded by Georges Seurat.

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Nicolas Schöffer

Nicolas Schöffer (Schöffer Miklós; 6 September 1912 — 8 January 1992) was a Hungarian-born French cybernetic artist.

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Nouvelle tendance

Nouvelle Tendance (New Tendency) was an art movement founded in Yugoslavia in 1961.

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Omar Rayo

Omar Rayo Reyes (January 20, 1928 – June 7, 2010) was a renowned Colombian painter, sculptor, caricaturist and plastic artist.

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Optical illusion

An optical illusion (also called a visual illusion) is an illusion caused by the visual system and characterized by a visual percept that (loosely said) appears to differ from reality.

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Pattern glare

Pattern glare is a form of visual discomfort, arising from viewing repetitively striped patterns, such as those of op art.

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Pécs

Pécs (known by alternative names) is the fifth largest city of Hungary, located on the slopes of the Mecsek mountains in the south-west of the country, close to its border with Croatia.

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Perception

Perception (from the Latin perceptio) is the organization, identification, and interpretation of sensory information in order to represent and understand the presented information, or the environment.

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Pontus Hultén

Karl Gunnar Vougt Pontus Hultén (21 June 1924 – 25 October 2006) was a Swedish art collector and museum director.

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Psychophysiology

Psychophysiology (from Greek ψῡχή, psȳkhē, "breath, life, soul"; φύσις, physis, "nature, origin"; and -λογία, -logia) is the branch of psychology that is concerned with the physiological bases of psychological processes.

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Reginald H. Neal

Reginald H. Neal (1909–1992) was an American painter and graphic artist, especially a printmaker, who created op art works.

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Richard Allen (abstract artist)

Richard Allen (February 8, 1933 – February 9, 1999) was a British Minimalist, Abstract, Systems, Fundamental, and Geometric painter and printmaker.

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Richard Anuszkiewicz

Richard Anuszkiewicz (born May 23, 1930) is an American painter, printmaker, and sculptor.

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Tavar Zawacki

Tavar Zawacki (born 1981) is an American abstract artist based in Berlin, Germany.

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Terrain Gallery

The Terrain Gallery, or the Terrain, is an art gallery and educational center at 141 Greene Street in SoHo, Manhattan, New York City.

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Theory of Colours

Theory of Colours (German: Zur Farbenlehre) is a book by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe about the poet's views on the nature of colours and how these are perceived by humans.

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This Is Tomorrow

This Is Tomorrow was a seminal art exhibition in August 1956 at the Whitechapel Art Gallery on High Street in London, UK, facilitated by curator Bryan Robertson.

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Tony DeLap

Tony DeLap (born 1927) is a West Coast artist, known for his abstract sculpture utilizing illusionist techniques and meticulous craftsmanship.

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Trompe-l'œil

Trompe-l'œil (French for "deceive the eye", pronounced) is an art technique that uses realistic imagery to create the optical illusion that the depicted objects exist in three dimensions.

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Vera Molnár

Vera Molnár (born 1924) is a French media artist of Hungarian origin.

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Victor Vasarely

Victor Vasarely (born Győző Vásárhelyi,; –), was a Hungarian-French artist, who is widely accepted as a "grandfather" and leaderThe New York Times obituary https://www.nytimes.com/1997/03/18/arts/victor-vasarely-op-art-patriarch-dies-at-90.html of the op art movement.

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Wake Forest University

Wake Forest University is a private, independent, nonprofit, nonsectarian, coeducational research university in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, founded in 1834.

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Walter Gropius

Walter Adolph Georg Gropius (18 May 1883 – 5 July 1969) was a German architect and founder of the Bauhaus School, who, along with Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Le Corbusier and Frank Lloyd Wright, is widely regarded as one of the pioneering masters of modernist architecture.

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Wen-Ying Tsai

Wen-Ying Tsai (October 13, 1928 – January 2, 2013) was an American pioneer cybernetic sculptor and kinetic artist best known for creating sculptures using electric motors, stainless steel rods, stroboscopic light, and audio feedback control.

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Yaacov Agam

Yaacov Agam (יעקב אגם; born 11 May 1928) is an Israeli sculptor and experimental artist best known for his contributions to optical and kinetic art.

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Yale University

Yale University is an American private Ivy League research university in New Haven, Connecticut.

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Youri Messen-Jaschin

Youri Messen-Jaschin is an artist of Latvian origin, born in Arosa, Switzerland, in 1941.

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Zürich

Zürich or Zurich is the largest city in Switzerland and the capital of the canton of Zürich.

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Zero (art)

Zero is a group of artists founded by Heinz Mack and Otto Piene and the name of their magazine.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Op_art

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