OP ART (1960-1970)

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OP ART (1960-1970)
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Bridget Riley, born 1931 Shadowplay, 1990 The
British painter Bridget Riley rose to prominence
in the 1960s as one of the leading practitioners
of what became known as Op Art, an international
abstract movement concerned with visual effects
and illusions. Complimentary colors and
pattern/repetition are key elements of her work.
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Of her work, Riley said, "In my earlier
paintings, I wanted the space between the picture
plane and the spectator to be active. It was in
that space, paradoxically, the painting took
place. Then, little by little, and, to some
extent deliberately, I made it go the other way,
opening up an interior space, as it were, so that
there was a layered, shallow depth. It is
important that the painting can be inhabited, so
that the mind's eye, or the eye's mind, can move
about it credibly. Of her paintings, she has
also commented, the eye can travel over the
surface in a way parallel to the way it moves
over nature. It should feel caressed and soothed,
experience frictions and ruptures, glide and
driftOne moment there will be nothing to look at
and the next second the canvas seems to refill,
to be crowded with visual events.
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BRIDGET RILEY (born 1931) Conversation  (1992)
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Bridget Riley Cataract 3, 1967 PVA on Canvas,
87x873/4 in.
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Vasarely, Victor Untitled
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Victor Vasarely, artistFrench, 1908 -
1997 Capella III, 1967 Color screenprint in
black and goldGift of the Pantechnicon
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Victor Vasarely
19081997 Known as the
father of Op Art. He began painting the
geometrical abstractions that led to birth of Op
Art. Initially, he drew inspiration from the
crackled tiles he looked at every day while
waiting for the underground train in Paris. When
he began using brighter, more vibrant colors, his
works further enhanced the suggestion of movement
through optical illusion.
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• Victor Vasarely, French
• DEUTON MC,
• from the series of eight prints Homage to the
  Hexagon, 1969
• ScreenprintImage 60.5 x 60.5 cm (23 13/16 x 23
  13/16 in.) Sheet 68 x 68 cm (26 3/4 x 26 3/4
  in.)

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American Realism (Representationalism) 1940s -
Present
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Triple Self-portriat 1960 Saturday Evening Post
Cover - 13 February 1960
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Symbolism in Triple Self-portrait Portraits of
other master painters (Durer, Rembrandt, Van
Gogh, and Picasso) surround him--suggesting he
places himself in an equal relation to them his
own sketches for the work in progress are at the
left Mirrorsymbol of an image of himself it is
devoid of personality (cant even see his eyes)
it is a mask he wears that differs from who he is
inside the three different views beg the
question of who he really is Discarded
paperlikenesses he rejected (defining
himself?) American symbolhe paints the story of
America
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WYETH, AndrewChristina's World1948TemperaThe
Museum of Modern Art, New York
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An eighteenth century sea captain's house in
Cushing, Maine haunted Andrew Wyeth
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CHRISTINA OLSON

• In 1890 Katie Hathorn was the last surviving
  child of a long line of Hathorns who made their
  home in the large white house located near the
  end of Hathorn Point. Katie met Johan Olauson, a
  young sailor from Sweden who had to spend the
  winter in Cushing since the schooner he was
  working on was icebound. They married two years
  later and Johan changed his name to John Olson.
  The couple took over the running of the Olson
  farm.

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• In 1893 their first child was born, named Anna
  Christina. The family grew and three younger
  brothers joined Christina. Christina and her
  brothers attended the local schools but her
  mother soon noticed that Christina had a weakness
  in her legs and fell more often than the other
  children. Katie sewed kneepads to protect her
  daughter from her many falls.
• As Christina grew to be a young woman she
  attended social functions that were common for
  small towns of that time. This included dances at
  the Grange, church socials and a variety of
  social club events.

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• But by the age of twenty-six Christina found it
  increasingly difficult to stand without outside
  support. Her parents sent her to Boston City
  Hospital. She hated her stay in the hospital
  where the doctors told her that her condition
  would not improve.
• Christina's mother died in 1927 and her father
  followed in 1935. By 1935 Christina lived alone
  in the Olson House with her brother Alvaro.
• She continued to be involved with local social
  functions where her baked goods were highly
  prized.

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• One of Christinas friends, Betsy James, brought
  a young artist by the name of Andrew Wyeth to
  meet the Olsons. Wyeth was immediately taken with
  the old farm and with the brother and sister who
  lived there.
• Andrew married Betsy in 1940 and often visited
  the Olson farm. Wyeth did many drawings,
  watercolors and tempera paintings of the farm and
  Christina over the nearly three decades that he
  knew the Olsons. He claimed, In the portraits
  of that house, the windows are eyes or pieces of
  the soul almost. To me, each window is a
  different part of Christinas life.

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• Christina's disability increased with age. When
  she was fifty-three, she was unable to stand and
  stopped walking, resorting to only crawling to
  get where she wanted to go.
• Christina's World, painted in 1948 by Andrew
  Wyeth immortalized Christina forever in the minds
  of millions of people.
• Christina Olson died in January of 1968 one
  month after her brother Alvaros death in
  December of 1967.

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Andrew WyethAmerican, born 1917Brandywine
Valley, 1940watercolor on wove paper, 55.6 x
76.3 cm (21 7/8 x 30 1/16 in.) The Armand Hammer
Collection1991.217.72
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The Art Institute of Chicago and VAGA, New
York, NY Grant WoodAmerican,
1891-1942 American Gothic, 1930 Oil on
beaverboard 74.3 x 62.4 cm
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John Currin
Stamford After Brunch, 2000
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Super realism or photo-realism
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Richard Estes Born 1932 in Kewanee, ILLives and
works in New York, NY Water Taxi, Mount Desert,
1999 oil paint on canvas
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Richard Estes oil paint on canvas
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Richard Estes
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• TITLE  Market Basket Harley ARTIST Tom
  Blackwell 
• WORK DATE  2007 MATERIALS  Acrylic on paper
• SIZE  h 16.5 x w 22 in / h 41.9 x w 55.9 cm

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• TITLE  Sagaponack Sunday ARTIST  Tom
  Blackwell
• WORK DATE  2003 MATERIALS  Oil on linen
• SIZE  h 48 x w 72 in / h 121.9 x w 182.9 cm

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• TITLE  Ferrariworld, Fall ARTIST  Tom
  Blackwell
• WORK DATE  2006 MATERIALS  huile sur toile
• SIZE  h 101.6 x w 152.4 cm / h 40 x w 60 in

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Tom Blackwell
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Chuck CloseNancy, 1968.Acrylic on canvas.
Milwaukee Art Museum Gift of Herbert H. Kohl
Charities, Inc.
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Chuck CloseBob
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Chuck Close
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Chuck Close
"The Event" On December 7, 1988, Close felt a
strange pain in his chest. That day he was at a
ceremony honoring local artists in New York City
and was waiting to be called to the podium to
present an award. Close delivered his speech and
then made his way across the street to Beth
Israel Medical Center where he suffered a seizure
which left him paralyzed from the neck down. The
cause was diagnosed as a spinal artery collapse.
Close called that day "The Event." For months
Close was in rehab strengthening his muscles he
soon had slight movement in his arms and could
walk, yet only for a few steps. He has relied on
a wheelchair since.
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However, Close continued to paint on with a brush
strapped onto his wrist with tape, creating large
portraits in low-resolution grid squares created
by an assistant. Viewed from afar, these squares
appear as a single, unified image which attempt
photo-reality, albeit in pixilated form. Although
the paralysis restricted his ability to paint as
meticulously as before, Close had, in a sense,
placed artificial restrictions upon his
hyper-realist approach well before the injury.
He had adopted materials and techniques that did
not lend themselves well to achieving a
photorealistic effect. Close proved able to
create his desired effects even with the most
difficult of materials to control.
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Chuck CloseSelf Portrait, 1997.Pixel style
portrait.
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Crayola, 1972-3 28 x 40 Audrey Flack
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Wildlife Art1970-Present
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Terry RedlinWild Wings
He is one of the country's most widely collected
painters of wildlife and Americana.
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Terry RedlinAutumn Glow
Having retired in 2007 Redlin reflected on his
career, saying, I wanted to tell stories with my
paintings, to remember the experiences of my
youth, and to imagine and capture forever events
that have been related to me by older folks I
have had the pleasure of knowing. Americas
rural past, in my eyes, was a wonderful place
full of both beauty and opportunity. How
fortunate Ive been to spend my life creating
memories of those distant times for others to
enjoy.
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Eileen Doughty's specialty is creating landscape
art quilts she has said that she loves the
concept of place so her preferred subject
matter is the landscape.
detail from Prairie Roots Run Deep
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• William Millonig "Windfall Crossing"Whitetail24"
  x 33" - Oil

Bill and his family live in the heart of
Wisconsin's Kettle Moraine. He has been painting
since he was a young boy getting early training
from his mother, who was an artist, and later
from several schools and artists in Wisconsin and
Minnesota.
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• William Millonig
• "Cattails and Rooster Tails"

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LeRoy NiemannFamily Portrait
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LeRoy NiemannPortrait of the Lion
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Sports Art1970 - Present
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LeRoy NeimannMagic1988
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LeRoy NiemannChipping On1972
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Robert RigerVictory in the Mud1994
Riger created his first sport art from an
Army-Navy football game that required five
lithograph pencils and 140 hours.
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Robert RigerRocky Marciano
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Robert Riger Dolph Schayes