It's been awhile but I finally have another installment of the Optical art Tribute. Today we will be featuring Black and White pieces for your viewing pleasure. Also please remember, for those of you who have an undying interest in this art form, to check my club ~op-art-club and enjoy some of the art there as well. Now let's move on to the wonderful information brought to you by (or from) Wikipedia!

"Op art is a perceptual experience related to how vision functions. It is a dynamic visual art, stemming from a discordant figure-ground relationship that causes the two planes to be in a tense and contradictory juxtaposition. Op Art is created in two primary ways. The first, and best known method, is the creation of effects through the use of pattern and line. Often these paintings are black and white, or otherwise grisaille. Such as in Bridget Riley's famous painting, Current (1964), on the cover of The Responsive Eye catalogue, black and white wavy lines are placed close to one another on the canvas surface, creating such a volatile figure-ground relationship that causes one's eyes to hurt. Another reaction that occurs is that the lines create after images of certain colors due to how the retina receives and processes light. As Goethe demonstrates in his treatise Theory of Colours, at the edge where light and dark meet color arises because lightness and darkness are the two central properties in the creation of color" (Wikipedia, Op Art).

Now for our featured art pieces. Please note that all of these deviations have less then 50 page views as of the date of this article.

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There you are and we hope you'll all join us next time, which we hope will be very soon, for another exciting article on your favorite art style where we focus primarily on colored pieces. That's all for now, Party On!! ~ =hairypackman