Wednesday, September 8, 2010

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Op Art & Philately

The Posta elvetica il 3 settembre 2010 ha emesso una serie di 3 fantastici francobolli dedicati al movimento artistico Op Art. Op è l’abbreviazione di Optical.
Youri Messen-Jaschin (1941) è l’artista svizzero, di origine lettone, che ha realizzato i 3 soggetti:
Red Ball da 0,85 franchi - Blue Black Red da 1,00 franchi - Red Circle Blue da 1,40 franchi.

L’ Optical Art is a movement of abstract art developed in the sixties, in fact the term Op Art appeared for the first time on Time Magazine, in October of 1964, and the MoMA - The Museum of Modern Art in New York will host the first major exhibition on 'Optical Art in 1965 entitled "The Responsive Eye " .
The movement explores the limits of human vision. The artist plays with the viewer, creating geometric patterns that seem to vibrate and pulsate, and then produce illusions of depth and movement.
The work of art itself is static, but shapes and colors evoke an illusion of movement. The two main techniques used to achieve this effect are: the prospects illusory and chromatic tension. The
Op Art has made its appearance in the U.S. and has spread to Europe, includes artists motions of different nationalities, including the Venezuelan Jesús-Rafael Soto the istreliano Yaacov Agam , Hungarian Victor Vasarely, Bridget Riley English, French Daniel Buren.

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