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Victor Vasarely and the Masters of Op Art
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Victor Vasarely and the Masters of Op Art

A Visual Optical Art Experience
Created byFederico von Borstel
Last updated 6/2022
English
English [Auto],

What you'll learn

  • Op Art
  • Increased appreciation of Art
  • The course promotes self-learning.
  • The course seeks to enrich your life experience.

Course content

1 section • 15 lectures • 1h 29m total length

  • Introduction2:47

    Explore optical art and op art, a visual style of optical illusions and abstract black-and-white designs, showing movement, hidden images, flashing and vibrating patterns, swelling and warping.

  • Op Art 25:54

    Explore how light behaves across the electromagnetic spectrum, including diffraction, dispersion, and scattering, and how the eye forms images, then translate these optical concepts into art with simple tools.

  • Op Art 36:06

    Explore op art and kinetic art, including interactive labyrinths that invite viewer participation. Learn how color contrasts and retina adaptation shape optical perception.

  • Op Art 416:30

    Explore op art through Bridget Riley’s black-and-white and color patterns, revealing movement and eye tricks created by repeating forms with subtle variations, lines, waves, and circles.

  • Op Art 515:40

    Explore Victor Vasarely's evolution from early graphic experiments to geometric abstract and optical art, highlighting kinetic images, cube and hexagon motifs, and the viewer's perceptual role in shaping meaning.

  • Op Art 64:43

    Explore op art with full-intensity complementary colors, juxtaposed tones, and radiating lines that produce optical changes under changing light; examine center square motifs and dynamic, shimmering effects in Vasarely-inspired compositions.

  • Op Art 73:04

    Explore the op art of Julian Stand with parallel lines, geometric shapes, and a refined color sense that orchestrates light and flux through visual meditations and color gradients.

  • Op Art 85:00

    Explore how Carlos Cruz uses parallel repetitive lines and muted greens to create interactive optical art that relies on viewer observation, transforming architecture and installations with translucent, moving color fields.

  • Op Art 92:26

    Explore how burnished aluminum panels create shifting reflections that depend on light direction and the observer's position, revealing optical effects central to op art.

  • Op Art 108:22

    Explore Rafael Soto's op art through minimalist, kinetic installations that use repeated vertical and horizontal lines, color fields, and motion to reveal perceptual relativity.

  • Op Art 112:25

    Explore how Wolfgang Ludovic German's black-and-white mandalas use centered circles, radiating but offset spokes, and changing circle diameters to create movement in op art.

  • Op Art 123:07

    Explore how op art uses expanding circles, offset vertical bars, and a rotated square to form lozenge shapes. Note the blue-green gradient, Corso wash paper textures, and subtle light shifts.

  • Op Art 134:39

    Explore the design potential of optical art by creating a translucent four-panel shoji screen with backlight, hinges, and light-diffusing rice paper, using repetition of forms.

  • Op Art 143:42

    Discover op art through Jeffrey Steel's black-and-white investigations, exploring intersecting rhythms, tilted rectangles and circles, and the evolving visual dynamics from 1962 to 1972.

  • Course Catalog5:32

    Explore the course catalog for Victor Vasarely and the Masters of Op Art, highlighting the course structure and central themes.

Requirements

  • There are no prerequisites for this course.

Description

This is a course on Op Art, or Optical Art. Optical Art is a very interesting, beautiful and influential style of art. The understanding and appreciation of Op Art will help you see the world in a new light, and will also add depth and substance to your work. This art is designed to be interactive between the viewer and the image. You will participate not only in the viewing interaction with the images, but will also be encouraged to try your hand at Optical Art. Welcome!

I teach lecture courses and studios as I wish they would have been taught to me. Much of the graphic material in my lectures is taken or generated first hand directly by me on site. I teach to learn. I teach subjects as I wish they were taught to me. The Mission Statement. Education is a tool for the improvement of successive generations. I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand. Confucius

This course is designed under the premise that humans should be taught in a way that is modeled after the educational patterns of evolution.

The design, development and application of educational systems based on the educational principles of evolution generates a philosophy and methodology of education in synchrony with the evolutionary education system that is firmly and deeply rooted in each of us.

Education for evolution is an educational system designed to help propel humans forward in the natural course of evolution. The purpose of education for evolution is to enhance and strengthen the natural evolutionary process of humans through the mechanism of education. The means to achieve this objective is the design of a curricula based on the same educational techniques and strategies used by natural evolution, enhanced and guided by the application of conscious educational decisions.

Who this course is for:

  • This course is for anyone interested in art.

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