Victor Vasarely pioneered what became known as Op Art – art works that play with the way our eyes resolve shapes and lines to create optical illusions of shape and movement with flat paint.
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Victor Vasarely
Supernovae
(1959–61)
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Victor Vasarely
Banya
(1964)
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Victor Vasarely
Untitled
(1963)
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Victor Vasarely
Untitled
(1963)
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Bridget Riley is one of the best-known British Op Artists. Her monochrome (using only a single colour) works were particularly influential in the 1960s.