Op Art

Learning Targets

Students will be able to develop and use criteria to evaluate craftsmanship in an artwork.

Students will use elements and principles to organize the

composition in his or her own artwork.

How will hit these targets?

Discuss craftsmanship

Review Elements and Principles

PowerPoint Presentation

Practice drawing

Project: Optical Illusion drawing

So what is

“craftsmanship”?

“craftsmanship”

skill in a particular craft

the quality of design and work shown in something made by hand; artistry

“craftsmanship”

skill in a particular craft

the quality of design and work shown in something made by hand; artistry.

Elements and Principles

Elements of art:

• Line

• Color

• Value

• Shape

• Form

• Texture

• Space

Principles of Design:

• Rhythm

• Movement

• Pattern

• Balance

• Contrast

• Emphasis

• Unity

Optical Illusions Back in 1915, a

cartoonist named W.E. Hill first published this drawing. It's hard to see what it's supposed to be.

Is it a drawing of a pretty young girl looking away from us? Or is it an older woman looking down at the floor?

Optical Illusions

Well, it's both. The key is perception and what you expect to see.

PERCEPTION: a

way of regarding, understanding, or interpreting something; a mental impression

Optical Illusions This simple line

drawing is titled, "Mother, Father, and daughter" (Fisher, 1968) because it contains the faces of all three people in the title.

How many faces can you find?

Optical Illusion: something that deceives/confuses the eye/brain by appearing to be other than it is

Optical Illusions Optical Art is a

mathematically-oriented form of (usually) Abstract art.

It uses repetition of simple forms and colors to create vibrating effects, patterns, an exaggerated sense of depth, foreground-background confusion, and other visual effects.

Optical Illusions In a sense all painting is

based on tricks of visual perception: using rules of perspective to give the illusion of three-dimensional space, mixing colors to give the impression of light and shadow, and so on.

With Optical Art, the rules that the eye applies to makes sense of a visual image are themselves the "subject" of the artwork.

Optical Illusions

In the 1960's, the term "Op Art" was coined to describe the work of a growing group of abstract painters.

This movement was led by Bridget Riley.

Bridget Riley

A British artist, Bridget Riley, was born in 1931 in London and is still creating art today.

Riley notably represented her country in the Venice Biennale (1968) and became the first British contemporary painter and female to garner the Biennale’s International Prize in painting.

Bridget Riley

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z1lQCTunGxg&feature=related

More Op Artists Victor Vasarely

(1906-1997)

Vega Nor (1969)Torony-Nagy (1969)

More Op Artists Yaacov Agam (1928-)

Fountain in Dizengoff Square in Tel Aviv

Work by Agam at the Sheba Medical Center,

Israel

More Optical Illusion examples

Old woman or a young girl?

Examples…

Is this man playing a horn, or do you see a woman?

Examples…

How many faces?

Examples…

The face of Native American, or is it an Eskimo?

Examples…

Which animals?

Project

Students will review craftsmanship.

Students will complete preliminary drawings.

Students will create an optical illusion using shapes, forms, color, pattern, space, and movement.

Questions???