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:  Principles of • Line Design: • Color • Rhythm • Value • Movement • Shape • Pattern • Form • Balance • Texture • Contrast • Space • 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.  PERCEPTION: a The key is way of regarding, perception and understanding, or what you expect interpreting something; a to see. 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=Z 1lQCTunGxg&feature=related More Op Artists

 Victor Vasarely (1906-1997)

Torony-Nagy (1969) Vega Nor (1969) More Op Artists

 Yaacov Agam (1928-)

Fountain in Dizengoff Work by Agam at Square in Tel Aviv 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.

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