PRESENTATION OUTLINE
Question 1: What is Op Art?
Answer: Op Art is a style of abstract art that creates an optical illusion out of patterns,colors,and overlapping.
Question 2: During what time period did this artistic movement take place?
Answer: The time period that the Op Art took movement in was the late 1930's, but got it's name in 1964 from an magazine article.
Question 3: Where can the beginning of Op Art be traced back to?
Answer: Op Art can be traced back to 1839 and Michel-Eugene Chevreul, a French chemist who studied the effect of pairing complimentary colors.
Question 4: What are the characteristics of Op Art?
Answer: The characteristics of Op Art is that it is concrete art which is abstract art with no figurative or symbolic references ( kinda like non-objective.) It creates optical illusions and the viewer's eye conducts movement and the artwork looks like it's moving, while it isn't.
Question 5:Who are the influential artist of this art style?
Answer: They are Bridget Riley, Victor Vasarely, and Peter Sedgly.
Question 6:What kind of art do these artists create? (Be VERY descriptive!!)
Answer:These artist create paintings that look like they are moving and they don't have a lot of detail.
Question 7: 7. Give information about these specific important artists:
a. Bridget Riley
i. Birth/Death Date: April 24,1931, she has not died yet.
ii. Where she was born: Norwood, South London.
iii. Where she studied: Goldsmith University of London, Royal College of Art, and The Cheltenham Ladies college.
iv. 3 facts about her life:1) When she was little she spent most of her time playing on beaches and cliffs near where she lived. 2) In 1955 she moved back to Lincolnshire to look after her father who was injured in a car wreck. 3) In 1958 she started working at…
8. Choose one of the artworks from Riley or Vasarely and Critique it using out 4 Art Critique steps (Describe, Analyze, Interpret, and Judge.)I chose"Arrest"by Bridget Riley.
a. Describe:
i. What people and objects you see and what is happening? I see stripes like a zebras and that is dark in the front and get lighter in the back.
ii. The Elements of Art used? Line value,and form.The lines are curvy, there are diffrents values of black and it is 3-D,o
iii. The size of the work and the medium?Emulsion on canvas and70x68in.
b. Analyze
i. How are the parts of this work arranged?There are curved lines that are filled in black and white. You start in the middle and work your way out.
ii. Use the Principles of Design in your analysis You start in the middle and work your way out.
c. Interpret
i. What do I believe is happening? Why? I believe that the lines are creating a square.
ii. What idea, mood, or feeling does this artwork suggest? Why? Nauseous, because of all of the swirling .
d. Judge
i. Personal Judgment: Do you like the work? Why or why not? Yes, I like the work because I like zebra stripes and because of the illusion.
ii. Aesthetic Views: Is it Subject, Composition, or Content? Or is it more than one, and why. It is composition because it is based off of lines.
