About Op Art (Riley / Vasarely)
Op Art turned perception itself into the medium. In the 1960s, Bridget Riley's undulating monochrome stripes and Victor Vasarely's impossible cubes proved that pure geometry could make a static image vibrate, flicker, and seem to move. The 1965 MoMA exhibition "The Responsive Eye" crystallized the movement into a global visual language.
The design system inherits that discipline: maximum-contrast black and white, hard edges, zero radius, flat surfaces, and mathematical grids. Color enters only as signal — Vasarely's primaries — never as decoration. Every line is calculated; nothing is hand-drawn.
- Origin
- London / Paris / New York
- Era
- 1960s peak (MoMA 'The Responsive Eye', 1965); roots in 1950s Bauhaus color theory
- Key figures
- Bridget Riley · Victor Vasarely · Josef Albers · Jesús Rafael Soto
- Movements
- Op Art · Kinetic Art · Hard-edge painting
Op Art (Riley / Vasarely) design spec
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