Op Art Cube/designs
Crystal BoganwrightUNIT: Op Art - Graphic Design
Lesson: Op Art Cube
Grade Level: Middle School-8th grade
North Carolina Objectives:
1.1to plan and organize for unique and original solutions (design using perspective and design)
1.2refine strategies (symmetry and space) for imagining and implementing ideas (creating interesting optical art drawings)
3.2 explore and discuss the elements of art (space, line , value and texture) and principles of design (variation and balance)
3.4 Apply intuitive perception in the problem solving process
3.5 apply diverse original solutions in the problem solving process
Materials:
Worksheets, power point, colored pencils, sharpies, markers, drawing paper, white out and rulers
Vocabulary
Communication, Visual, Verbal, Compare, contrast, line, shape, color, value elements of art, principles of design, interest, focal point
Technology
PowerPoint for pop art and optical art
Assessment
Rubric
Artistic movement/artist
Optical artists- Victor Vasarely and Bridget riley
Modern art
Finisher/distinction maker
For my distinction maker, students will be asked to pick a current issue out of the paper and discuss how her/she feels about the issue. They are to find ways to solve the issue or ways that they think the issue could be handled in a different manner. This will allow for students to begin thinking about things and how they can be used in future art assignments.
Student Work sheets
See attached
Books on Victor Vasarely
Victor Vasarely: 1906-1997; Pure Vision - Vasarely's experimentation with optical effects in the 1940s and 50s earned him a central role in the evolution of Op Art. Vasarely's boldly colorful and eye-popping paintings are instantly recognizable and remain entirely modern and relevant today.
Vasarely - Widely considered the father of Op Art, the Hungarian-born artist Victor Vasarely was instrumental not only in provoking a school of thought based on the relationship between art and science, but in creating some of the most striking geometric paintings in the history of late Modernism. This book, which gathers together a generous selection of his most significant works, celebrates his immense intelligence, passion, and artistry.
Prints by Victor Vasarely
- Vega-Nor by Victor Vasarely
- Alom by Victor Vasarely
- Cheyt M by Victor Vasarely
Idea pages
Books on Bridget Riley
Embodied Visions: Bridget Riley, Op Art and the Sixties - In this new book, based on eight years' research, Frances Follin examines contemporary reviews of Riley's work to reveal the complex associations between these paintings and the culture in which they were produced. Far from being the peripheral art form that some later accounts have presented, Follin shows how Riley's Op work occupies a key position in debates on modernism in the arts and in the future of Western societies.
Bridget Riley: New Paintings and Gouaches - An essential publication for followers of the internationally known abstract painter Bridget Riley, this exhibition catalogue of new paintings is her first show in the UK since 2000. This book is fully illustrated with large color images of previously unseen paintings.