When OpArt Meets Geometry
Posted by Krissy PondenSeventh grade has been playing tricks on their eyes…and soon yours too! We began the year studying OpArt, the artistic movement that arose in the 1960s that utilizes line, color, pattern and repetition to create stunning works of optical illusion. Bridget Riley, a painter and printmaker, was one of the early artists to play with patterns in a way that would eventually become a trademark of 60s fashion and design. To make our own works of OpArt even more dynamic, we used a three-dimensional geometric form called an icosahedron as our canvas. Consisting of 20 equilateral triangles, icosahedrons provide the perfect structure to showcase these mind bending designs!
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