The highest price for a Stanczak in the survey was $62,500 for a painting bought by the Museum ... with a premium on early Op Art examples. Sotheby's sold a 53-by-53-inch 1964 Stanczak at auction ...

Asis made "16 cercles" in 1965, a year after the phrase "op art" was coined by Time magazine to describe patterned paintings that presented optical illusions. Everyone was talking about the genre ...

Reporting from Seven Hills, Ohio — Julian Stanczak, an artist known worldwide for his brightly colored, geometric Op art, has died ... of his “Optical Paintings” the year before.

One unique piece of art is an anachronism.” An assembly line of ten assistants executes the paintings that he first ... he has spawned a host of op disciples. He has also played spiritual ...

Bold prints "can fill out a figure so it's important to keep the shapes very lean," warns InStyle fashion director Tamasin Doe. "Very simple shapes suit op-art prints best of all." With fashion ...

A separate cluster of exhibitions, on view in the new East Wing, examines landscape photography, Op Art paintings by Cleveland artists of the 1960s and objects of daily use from Southeast Africa.

Photoshop tutorial showing how to create an authentic, OP ART digital painting based on the masterworks of Victor Vasarely.

In business for more than 43 years, it’s the oldest continuously operating co-op art gallery in Snohomish ... displays encaustic (melted wax) paintings. The move has given the artists momentum ...

a pioneer of the op art, or optical art, movement in the 1960s and 70s. The prints are expected to fetch up to $35,000 when they go to auction as a set later this month. The donation arrived at ...

Richard Anuszkiewicz was a contemporary American artist best known for his mesmerizing Op Art paintings. Anuszkiewicz's works are saturated with vibrant color arranged in jarring geometric abstract ...

Fangor made Op Art avant la lettre and in isolation. In the late 1950s, he moved on from poster art to create vivid abstract paintings, using multiple layers of thin oil paint, and conjuring shapes ...