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As stated in the The artists that followed, Op Art was greatly
influenced by Duchamp's Rotoreliefs. The idea is that by looking at the object, one eye is fooled, or tricked into seeing
one thing, but also seeing another. Seems quite confusing doesn't it? Essentially it was the a computer based optical
illusion. With Duchamp's Rotoreliefs a wheel when stationary, had various sizes of circles asymetrically aligned in the centre
of the wheel, when the wheel would spin, these circles would give the impression that they were moving, either side to side,
or in and out. With Op Art this was the basis, to trick the eye, trying to create a three dimensional image, on a two dimensional
plane.
Again, one of the leading people for this movement was M.C. Escher, a good
example of his work during this movement would be Ascending and Descending of 1960 which depicts a building roofed
by a never ending staircase, included are people walking up and down these stairs, as well as defying gravity.
The basis for this movement was using lines and colours (although mostly used was black
and white) in a mathmatical abstract form and composition, specifically placed or formed to increase the effect of fooling
the eye of the viewer. if confused think of Rothko's abstract paintings, specifically creating colours, and matching them
with only one or two others, and painting solid colour blocks onto canvases to create an illusional perspective of the
colours seperatly moving back and forth, and oposite to eachother, such as Orange and Tan,1954 in which when
the viewer looks at the paintings long enough they begin to fool the eye into believe that the painting is moving back and
forth, or breathing (All above paragraph from class notes from Rosemary Vamos).
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