In this sense, art, illusions and visual science have always been implicitly linked. It was only with the birth of the op art (for “optical art”) movement that visual illusions became a ...

Hughes to share some of her favorite Op Art works from the collection. What she came up with is just the tip of the iceberg, but it's a good start for anyone whose interest in optical illusions is ...

Artist Craig Neil has been doing just that, sharing his mind-bending celebrity op art over on TikTok. The illusions appear right before our eyes, as he takes us step by step through his creative ...

In the five works hanging in the Art Museum, each of the backgrounds is in the Op Art style, a 1960s fad that elevated optical illusions to the status of art. So in Johnson’s creations, the borrowed ...

Asis made "16 cercles" in 1965, a year after the phrase "op art" was coined by Time magazine to describe patterned paintings that presented optical illusions. Everyone was talking about the genre ...

known as op art because of the optical illusions it creates with tricks like parallel stripes and concentric circles, is "slightly more discreet" in its current incarnation. That means it's more ...

Escher was making Op Art a quarter century before the Op Artists ... But is that all they are? “Reality and Illusion” effortlessly conveys the overheated engine of Escher’s intellect.

In this sense, art, illusions and visual science have always been implicitly linked. It was only with the birth of the op art (for “optical art”) movement that visual illusions became a ...