Op Art Movement

Movement

• 1960 Known as the style to trick the eye• Lasted about 3 years• Artist: Victor Vasarely, M.C. Echer, and Bridget

Riley

Time in History

• President Kennedy had been assassinated• Escalating Civil Rights Movement• Music was being invaded by British Pop/Rock

and Roll• Once Op art started to be in Major art shows

the world was in love with it! It showed up in print, on TV, advertising, fashion and interior design.

Art Elements

• Color• Line• Shape• Space

Art Principles

• Rhythm • Movement• Pattern

Examples

• Bridget Riley

Victor Vasarely

M.C.Escher

Later

• In the 21 century op art has been used in graphic design. With the use of a computer artist can use line, shape and color to trick the eye and positive and negative spaces are now show equal importance.

Op Art Review Questions

• 1.What is Op art?• 2.How does it work?• 3.When did the movement start?• 4.What was happening in History when it

started?• 5.Name an artist who worked in the Op Art

Movement.

Piet Mondrian

• The Art movement of Mondrian’s time was called “Neoplatonism”.

• Means= non-representational forms ( can see anything or object in the composition).

• White background , with painted vertical and horizontal black lines.

Was Influenced by Picasso

1920’s

Art As Pure Abstraction

Famous Work

World Liked the Style

Piet Mondrian Review

• 1. What is Piet Mondrian famous for?• 2. What time frame did he work in or what

year did he start working?• 3. Describe his work?• 4. What does non-representational mean?• 5. Do you feel his work is worth being famous

for? Why or Why not?

Van Gogh

Famous Works

Starry Night

Life

• Painted in the 1880’s • Time period was called, “Impressionism”.• 1888 he cut off his ear• 1890 he shot himself and died two days later

at the age of 37.• He had many illnesses that caused him to do

these things.

900 paintings

Style

Review Van Gogh

• What we know vs. What we learned!

• Write down 5 facts about Van Gogh that we learned in this unit. Can not be from the what we know list. Can be time frame(date), time period (name), his life or his work/style of art.

Georgia O’Keefe

• One of the most significant artists of the 20th century

• Georgia O’Keeffe (1887-1986) was devoted to creating imagery that expressed what she called “the wideness and wonder of the world as I live in it.”

Long Life

Famous Works

Soft blended colors of flowers that give the illusion of abstract.

Flower Enlargements

Skulls and Desert Landscapes

Review O’keefe

• 1. Describe her life.• 2. Describe her subjects.• 3. Describe her technique.

Jackson Pollock

Large Scale

Painted on the floor

His Work

His Life

• Born in 1912 Lived in Wyoming• His fathers family lived in Tingley, Iowa ! His

last name was McCoy and his parents died and the neighbors took him in and later adopted him so his name became Pollock.

• Lived in California and then New York.• Alcoholic and Bipolar• Died at the age of 44, car hit a tree.(1956)

His Style

• 20 th Century Abstract• Dripped paint from buckets, ends of paint

brushes and sticks.• Used house paints• Canvas was sometimes black or un-gessoed

canvas.• Painted while standing on the canvas and tossing

paint downward in thick, textured application.

Pollock Review

• True or False• 1. Pollock is from Iowa?• 2. Pollock splatter painted?• 3. Pollock use house hold paint?• 4. Pollock’s paintings represented his life?• 5. Blending paint was very important to how

he mixed his paints?