Optical Art is a mathematically-themed form of Abstract art, which uses repetition of simple forms and colors to create vibrating effects, moiré patterns, foreground-background confusion, an exaggerated sense of depth, and other visual effects.
With Optical Art, the rules that the viewer's eye uses to try to make sense of a visual image are themselves the "subject" of the artwork.
In the 1960's, the term "Op Art" was coined to describe the work of a growing group of abstract painters.
As he put it in his landmark essay "Modernist Painting" from 1960, "visual art should confine itself exclusively to what is given in visual experience, and make no reference to anything given in any other order of experience." In fact, it was more than an explanation; it was a command.
For the artists on these pages, it is unlikely that the lessons of art history or of their own craft have had any greater influence on them than the last 30 years of film and TV.
On the flood plain of art today, diversity is an expression of an infinitely horizontal momentum-an equality in all things, a mobility that holds invention dearer than history.
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