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	op - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		Ops, in Roman mythology, goddess of plenty and harvests, and protectress of agriculture.
		Wife of Saturn, Ops is sometimes identified with Rhea, wife...
		Op Art, style of abstract painting that made use of optical illusions and other striking visual effects.
	ca.encarta.msn.com /op.html (90 words)

	Op art
		Op art is a term used to described certain paintings made primarily in the 1960s which exploit the fallibilty of the eye through the use of optical illusions.
		Op art works are usually abstract, with many of the better known pieces made in only fl and white.
		Op art subsequently became tremendously popular, and op art images were used in a number of commercial contexts.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/op/Op-art.html (326 words)

	Op Art Art - Artists, Artworks and Biographies
		Op Art relies on optical illusions and is sometimes called optical art or retinal art.
		Op painters and sculptors used geometric designs in order to create feelings of movement or vibration, sometimes in vibrant colors and other times in simply fl and white.
		Op Art’s primary goal was to fool the eye.
	www.wwar.com /masters/movements/op_art.html (249 words)

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		Op het platte Groninger land, en dan in een verre uithoek van dat platte land, daar vind je in het gehucht Wildevanksterdallen De Kainstobbe.
		Op de tafeltjes in de foyer lagen zijn hemelse ansichtkaarten naast een foldertje voor een Vlaamse theaterweek - hemel en hel naast elkaar.
		Kost je niks, maar levert wel geld op waar nuttige dingen mee gedaan worden.
	www.moorsmagazine.com (3348 words)

	Op Art St. James Encyclopedia of Pop Culture - Find Articles
		Op works were extolled in the popular press as refreshingly neat and mechanical; they appeared scientific and enjoyed popularity with a post-World War II American public consumed with lust for gadgetry, modern appliances, and atomic power.
		Op artists therefore made a direct appeal to the spectator; they relied upon viewers' eyes to complete their works, to physiologically dissolve and expand the space between lines, to mix colors, and to generate afterimages.
		Op Art not only appeared computer-generated, it was also partly a product of well-known seminars taught by scientist-painters like Josef Albers at Harvard and Yale.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_g1epc/is_tov/ai_2419100919 (687 words)

	Op art Summary
		Op art, also known as optical art, is used to describe some paintings and other works of art which use optical illusions.
		Op art works are abstract, with many of the better known pieces made in only fl and white.
		Op art subsequently became tremendously popular, and op art images were used in a number of commercial contexts.
	www.bookrags.com /Op_art (1096 words)

	Modern Art Movements
		Fine examples of Art Nouveau are the subway entrances in Paris, the glass works of Emille Galle and Louis Comfort Tiffany in the US or the posters by Alphonse Mucha.
		For the fine arts, the best-known names are Salvador Dali, the Italian Giorgio de Chirico with his strange and eerie town views, Marcel Duchamp, Max Ernst, Joan Miro, Yves Tanguy, Rene Margritte and the Russian Marc Chagall.
		Op Art expressed itself with reduced geometrical forms - sometimes in fl and white contrasts and sometimes with very brilliant colors.
	www.artelino.com /articles/modern_art_periods.asp (1265 words)

	Op Art (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		Op art, short for optical art with the echo of "Pop Art" included, is a term the media invented in 1964 for works that feature retinal or optical phenomena to confound the normal processes of perception.
		Op art creates illusions of movement, afterimages, or moiré effects, and requires viewer's participation to complete the phenomenon.
		With origins in trompe l'oeil (deceives the eye), Op art is also related to Fluxus and to gestalte psychology (the whole perceived as greater than sum of parts).
	www.wsu.edu /~delahoyd/20th/op.html (321 words)

	Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for op art (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		op art, movement that became prominent in the United States and Europe in the mid-1960s.
		American art the art of the North American colonies and of the United States.
		Canadian art and architecture the various types and styles arts and structures produced in the geographic area that now constitutes Canada.
	www.encyclopedia.com /articles/09579.html (533 words)

	Op Art - Op Art Art
		The aim of Op Art was to produce illusions of depth, relief and motion; it would blur or stir the eye, but never by resorting to actual movement (as in Kinetic Art).
		Op Art - A twentieth century art movement and style in which artists sought to create an impression of movement on the picture surface by means of optical illusion.
		Optical art, or Op art as it is better known, is an abbreviation for Optical Art, a modern art movement that developed in the United States and Europe in the mid-1960s...
	www.huntfor.com /arthistory/C20th/opart.htm (636 words)

	Optical Art: Artists and their Works
		Optical Art is a mathematically-themed form of Abstract art, which uses repetition of simple forms and colors to create vibrating effects, moiré patterns, foreground-background confusion, an exaggerated sense of depth, and other visual effects.
		With Optical Art, the rules that the viewer's eye uses to try to make sense of a visual image are themselves the "subject" of the artwork.
		In the 1960's, the term "Op Art" was coined to describe the work of a growing group of abstract painters.
	www.artcyclopedia.com /history/optical.html (181 words)

	SWAP \| Op Art Activities
		This kind of art was first called kinetic art because some of the art actually moved and the rest appeared to move because of the way the designs play tricks on our vision.
		Op Art is concerned with illusion, perception, and the physical and psychological effects of color.
		After introducing Op Art to the students, introduce different ways Op Art shapes are used such as on clothing, in ads, etc. (See www.karencombs.com/index.html for examples of Op Art quilts and quilt blocks) Show the class some examples of shapes that can recede and advance.
	www.sma.shs.nebo.edu /swap/oapopacts.html (6581 words)

	Chronogram - Op Art - Jul 2006 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		The key characteristic of Op Art painting is the way it manipulates color, depth, and perspective to create eye-popping effects—when the correct colors are placed next to each other, for example, the artist can create an intense visual vibration that implies movement, even as the painting itself remains stock-still.
		Represented here by three paintings (the latest of which is from 1984), Stanczak has in recent years become the grand Zen master of Op illusion—settling into a fairly constant, methodical approach, he delves so deeply into the relationship between material, color and illusion that Op begins to resonate on an intensely spiritual level.
		The concept behind the show is to promote both the arts and Ellenville, using the interest sparked by this explicitly noncommercial exhibition to enliven public space and to highlight the town as an attractive destination for visitors and for business.
	www.chronogram.com /issue/2006/07/arts/luciddreaming.php (1026 words)

	OP ART (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		Op Art (Optical Art) came to birth in the 1960's.
		The lead figures for the Op Art Movement were Bridget Riley and Vasarely.
		The surface of the Op Art work appears to be visually kinetic, relying on line, color and mathematical relationships between the two to create a visual energy that exists on the surface of the canvas.
	www.ega.edu /facweb/dpurcell/op_art.htm (73 words)

	Sanford & A Lifetime of Color: Study Art (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		Op Art, also called Optical Art, was popular along side Pop Art.
		Op art is a branch of geometric, abstract art that deals with optical illusion.
		Op art artists used colors and shapes in precise ways to make colors, lines and shapes seem to pulsate and flicker.
	www.sanford-artedventures.com /study/g_op_art.html (102 words)

	Op Art y Arte Cinético, por Image & Art
		Cuando al pop art le sucedió, como fenómeno periodístico, el op art, hubo una tendencia natural de los periodistas a buscar la mayor cantidad posible de artistas op.De allí que se incluyera en esta categoría a artistas cuyo interés en los efectos ópticos era en realidad muy marginal.
		Están ante todo, aquellas obras de arte que, a pesar de ser estáticas de hecho, parecen moverse o cambiar.
		Sería más justo evidentemente, decir que el repentino surgimiento del arte cinético en la década del cincuenta y a principios de la del sesenta, representaba una especie de nostalgia por la tecnología, más que una presencia de la tecnología en sí.
	www.imageandart.com /tutoriales/historia_arte/cinetico.html (4189 words)

	Optical Art: Learn about art and the Optical art movement
		Op Art began with the desire to involve a correlation between seeing and understanding.
		After about 400 years of experimentation with optical illusions in art, the Op Art movement decided to collectively study the importance and the effectiveness of art portrayed in a distorted manner.
		The Op Art artists would eventually use these same principles when demonstrating the contrasts between white and fl.
	www.respree.com /scstore/learn/op_art.html (436 words)

	Op Art Gallery, Op Art Pictures, Optical Art, Op Art Period, Op Art Posters
		The Op Art, or Optical Art movement was at its peak in the 1960â€™s and is represented by paintings and sculptures that seem to move and vibrate through the use of optical effects.
		Op Art artists used ideas from perceptive psychology and coupled them with maximum precision to achieve the results of illusion and distortion.
		Op Art is a type of abstract art that is closely related to the Kinetic and Constructivist art movements.
	www.arthistoryguide.com /Op_Art.aspx (223 words)

	Op Art
		Op Art reduces the image to its basic optically illusionary elements.
		Black and white Op Art pushes simplicity to the extreme, stripping away even color to reveal the underling optical illusion.
		The Op Art Display Project is an ongoing effort to gather, identify, and display Op Art from arround the world.
	opart.us (243 words)

	op art. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
		Deriving from abstract expressionism, op art includes paintings concerned with surface kinetics.
		Vibrating colors, concentric circles, and pulsating moiré patterns were characteristic of op works by such artists as Victor Vasarely, Richard Anusziewicz, Bridget Riley, Yaacov Agam, and Larry Poons.
		A comprehensive exhibition of op art, entitled “The Responsive Eye,” was organized by the Museum of Modern Art, New York City, in 1965.
	www.bartleby.com /65/op/opart.html (143 words)

	Op Art (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		The Op Art Movement developed in the United States and Europe in the mid-1960s.
		With Optical Art, the rules that the eye applies to makes sense of a visual image are themselves the "subject" of the artwork.
		Some well-known artists of the Op Art period were Victor Vasarely, Bridget Riley, M.C. Escher and Josef Albers.
	educ.queensu.ca /~fmc/december2004/OpArt.html (249 words)

	Delaware Art Museum
		Updraft is an effective example of Op Art, an international art movement of the 1960s and 1970s in which artists attempted to create an impression of movement on the picture surface by optical illusion.
		Op Art is all about the viewer’s experience, and it is populist in spirit.
		Op art pictures have the same effect on everyone, regardless of their artistic background.
	www.delart.org /view/collections/20th_andrade.html (368 words)

	Bridget Riley: Paintings - An Overview Of Her Art
		Bridget Riley was born in 1931 at Norwood, London, the daughter of a businessman.
		Since the mid-1960s she has been celebrated for her distinctive, optically vibrant paintings which actively engage the viewer's sensations and perceptions, producing visual experiences that are complex and challenging, subtle and arresting.
		Riley is acclaimed as one of the finest exponents of Op Art, with her subtle variations in size, shape and position of blocks within the overall pattern.
	www.mishabittleston.com /artists/bridget_riley (741 words)

	Op art - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Op Art is created in two primary ways.
		Op artists: Jesús-Rafael Soto, Carlos Cruz Diez, Youri Messen-Jaschin, Julio Le Parc, M.C. Escher, Julian Stanczak, Richard Anuszkiewicz, Agam, Victor Vasarely, Yvaral, Wolfgang Ludwig, Piero Dorazio, Ben Cunningham, Tadasky Kuwayama, Equipo 57, Francois Morellet, Ludwig Wilding, Wojciech Fangor, Nicolas Schöffer, Peter Sedgeley, Josef Albers, Bridget Riley.
		However it is thought by some that Laszlo Moholy-Nagy produced photographic Op art, and Noorali Hirani is currently producing Op art.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Op_art (1589 words)

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		Art Leaders Gallery represents an impressive range of nationally established artists and emerging new talents.
		Bonnie is known for her intuitive ability to make art a personal experience for clients.
	www.lycos.com /info/british-art--artists.html (555 words)

	ArtLex on Op Art
		- A twentieth century art movement and style in which artists sought to create an impression of movement on the picture surface by means of optical illusion.
		Depending upon which of this room's three windows we look out, we find our point of view is completely different and irreconsilable from each of the others.
		Vasarel's geometric paintings of the 1950s moved gradually toward optical art.
	www.artlex.com /ArtLex/o/opart.html (690 words)

	Tate \| Glossary \| Op art
		Op painting used a framework of purely geometric forms as the basis for its effects and also drew on colour theory and the physiology and psychology of perception.
		Vasarely was one of the originators of Op art.
		Soto's work often involves mobile elements and points up the close connection between Kinetic and Op art.
	www.tate.org.uk /collections/glossary/definition.jsp?entryId=206 (91 words)

	Art Lesson Plan: Op Art -Elementary Level
		Do an Op Art larger background and add the circle/circles (or square elements) on in relief (support with scrap foam core board).
		I open the project with a period on Op Art.
		Op Art for Educators - Links to lesson plans and materials from About.com (I have not checked all of these)
	www.princetonol.com /groups/iad/lessons/elem/patti-opart.htm (2308 words)

	Op art Art Style Information at Buy Art
		Op art pieces are often constructed of several mechanisms that repeat the same movement and the paintings follow this same logic- images of repetitious monotony in back and white strips all sharply elongated to create the illusion of real movement.
		He claimed that in a world becoming so technologically advanced, it would be arts function to impress meaning upon its audience not through the various techniques and tools of personal, artistic expression.
		Art, he believed, would have to lose the personal identifying marks of the artists who made it, and would become far more a consumer item; a template to be duplicated again and again.
	www.buy-original-art.com /styles/op_art.htm (523 words)

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