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Events
• Assassination of President Kennedy (1963)
• British pop/rock music
• First man in space(1961)
• Woodstock(1969)
Op art• Victor Vasarely began this movement with his
1938 painting ‘zebra’
• Abstract and Expressionist movements helped form op art due deconstructing subject matters.
• Bridget Riley, Victor Vasarely, Marina Apollonio, Richard Anuskiewitz and Julian Stanczak were the first Opital artists.
• In 1964 ‘Time magazine’ gave it the name‘op art’. After reviewing the responsive eye exhibition.
THE RESPONSIVE
• In 1965 William. C. Seitz held an exhibition at the museum of modern art in New york city
• It focused on perceptual aspects of art which result of illusion of movement and the interaction of colour relationships.
• After the Responsive eye exhibition the public was fascinated with optical art.
• Advertisements began to use it. They took inspiration Riley’s
and Vasarely’scompositional styles. Riley tried to sue one
fashion industry for printing her work on dresses.
Julian Stanczak
• Born in Poland in 1928. • In 1940 he was taken to a
concentration camp in Siberia. • There he lost the use of his right
arm (which he drawn with.) He was only 10.• AT JUST 13 HE ESCAPED. He made it to Persia and joined a
resistance army. Then to a refugee camp in Uganda.• At 21 he made it to America with an idea in his head of the
‘American dream’. There he made it to a shelter and was fed. The American dream was to him. ‘The feeling of being full’
• In the 50s he attended Yale.• But was his art influenced by his personal experience…..?
NO!
• “Everybody was trying to push me to paint from my experience. Why do you drown in the misery of your problems? Who cares if you suffer? Everyone suffers!”
• HOWEVER. The lost of his arm caused him to be careful with geometry. Any precision requires tape to create guides before paint was applied.
QUOTES
“I was trying to understand how I see- how we see altogether.”
“Any line creates energy”
“I’m not painting for myself. I’m painting for curiosity.”
“I didn’t know I was making art.”
School of London
• The term ‘School of London’ was first coined by R.B. Kitaj in 1976 in his catalogeintroduction to the exhibition ‘the human clay