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Vega-Nor
by Victor Vasarely
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Homage to the Square, c.1964
by Josef Albers
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Spectrum IV
by Ellsworth Kelly
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The Op Art movement occurred roughly at the same time as the Pop Art movement. Because of that, and the closeness in pronunciation between the two terms, the two movements have tended to be associated with each other. The roots of Op Art are European, with Victor Vasarely, a French-Hungarian artist often called the "Father of Op Art," and Bridget Riley, a British artist who was influenced by Vasarely, being early proponents of the Op Art style in painting. Vasarely was influenced by Constructivism and the Bauhaus. M.C. Escher is also sometimes associated with Op Art, although he's primarily considered to be a Surrealist. Its main influence was in America, in the form of the Minimalism art movement, which included Frank Stella, Ellsworth Kelly, and Barnett Newman. Minimalism was also influenced by the Abstract-Expressionism of Mark Rothko and Joseph Albers. A movement that was parellel to, and often overlapping, Minimalism was Color Field Painting, a term coined by the art critic, Clement Greenberg, to distinguish it from Action Painting. Artists often described as Color Field painters include Morris Louis, Kenneth Noland, and Sol LeWitt. Check out our Custom Framing options! Satisfaction is guaranteed.* Orders are 100% secure.* Click any thumbnail to view a larger version or make a purchase.

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Victor Vasarely was born in 1906 in Pecs, Hungary. He died in 1997 in Paris, France. He studied applied graphics art in Budapest before moving to Paris in 1930, where he worked as a graphic artist for an advertising company. He created paintings with Op Art elements as early as 1937, although he's best known for his works from the 1950s on. [More...]

Tridem K
by Victor Vasarely
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Alom
by Victor Vasarely
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Zebegen
by Victor Vasarely
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M.C. (Maurits Cornelius) Escher was born in 1898 in Leeuwarden, the Netherlands, and died in 1972. He studied architecture, and then decorative arts, at Haarlem. After a visit in 1924, he became fascinated with the Moorish mosaics of the Alhambra in Spain. He lived in Rome from 1924 to 1935, followed by six years in Switzerland and Belgium, until in 1941 he returned to the Netherlands, where most of the artworks for which he is best known, primarily lithographs, woodcuts, and mezzotints, were produced. Many of his works feature impossible objects and optical illusions, tessellations (or repetitious tilings), and the application of mathematical concepts in visual designs. [More...]