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Liubov Popova
In 1923 the painter Liubov Popova began creating designs for fabric to be manufactured by the First State Textile Printing Works in Moscow. This paper looks at the development of her involvement with constructivism while also examining the relationship between her textile prints and the abstract language of her earlier paintings. -
Victor Vasarely, Zebras
Es en esta ciudad donde desarrolla en 1937 uno de sus trabajos más importantes, "Zebra", considerada a día de hoy la primera obra de Op art. Las "Cebras" de Vasarely son hermosas interpretaciones de los animales en blanco y negro, síntesis del recorrido creativo del artista de la figura y de la naturaleza a su abstracción óptica de la marca: el puente entre lo clásico y el post-moderno. -
Josef Albers, Homage to the square
it is a style of colored squares. -
Bridget Riley, Current
Current's painted undulating black and white lines appear to vibrate and form three-dimensional depressions that quiver on the painting's surface. The juxtaposition of black and white activates the painting with the semblance of movement and the appearance of other colors. In this and other early works, Riley "wanted the space between the picture plane and the spectator to be active." She later explored color contrast. -
Peter Sedgley, Video Disques
Since the 1960s, Op artist Peter Sedgley has been producing luminous paintings of circles and optical explorations of light and kinetics.