Welcome to another installment of the Optical Art Tribute. As promised, this article will give some small details of the history of Optical Art (a.k.a. Op Art) and yes it came from Wikipedia again.

"The term first appeared in print in Time magazine in October 1964, though works which might now be described as "op art" had been produced for several years previously. For instance, Victor Vasarely's painting, Zebras (1938), is made up entirely of curvilinear black and white stripes that are not contained by contour lines. Consequently, the stripes appear to both meld into and burst forth from the surrounding background of the composition. Also the early black and white Dazzle panels of John McHale installed at the This is Tomorrow exhibit in 1956 and his Pandora series at the Institute of Contemporary Arts in 1962 demonstrate proto-op tendencies. In 1965, an exhibition called The Responsive Eye, created by William C. Seitz was held at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City. The works shown were wide ranging, encompassing the minimalism of Frank Stella and the smooth plasticity of Alexander Liberman, alongside the masters of the movement: Victor Vasarely and Bridget Riley. The exhibition focused on the perceptual aspects of art, which result both from the illusion of movement and the interaction of color relationships. The exhibition was enormously popular with the general public, though less so with the critics.[3]Critics dismissed Op art as portraying nothing more than trompe l'oeil, or tricks that fool the eye. Regardless, Op art's popularity with the public increased, and Op art images were used in a number of commercial contexts. Bridget Riley tried to sue an American company, without success, for using one of her paintings as the basis of a fabric design" (Wikipedia, Op Art).

I encourage everyone to look up the names of these people, if you've never heard of them, or even if you have look them up if you're interested. Also I would like to mention a new club that I've started, , I hope get many people to join soon. It's still in developmental stages but perhaps with some help I can make it better. And now the thing most people would want to see in this article, the features:

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Next time I'll discuss how Op Art works (or wikipedia will) and perhaps I can find some other information that might be helpful for anyone who has never drawn Optical stuff before. See you all in prt IV!