Moving Vision: Op and Kinetic Art from the Sixties and Seventies

The Op and Kinetic art movements freed painting and sculpture from their traditional limitations, adding perceived and real movement to art forms that historically were immobile. Op art used geometric patterns, contrasting colors, and light and shadow to create optical effects that confuse and excite the eye. Kinetic art relied upon the actual motion produced by electric motors, gravity, air currents, or human manipulation to make sculptures move. Op and Kinetic art, paired from the beginning, suited the search for new perceptions and psychedelic experiences that help to define our popular understanding of the 1960s.

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