Op Art

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"Soft Intervention" by Julian Stanczak

Released: December 9, 2011

Through the art of Julian Stanczak, Cleveland has a strong and time-honored connection to one of the often controversial movements of the mid-twentieth century – Op Art. Optical paintings, or Op Art as they were nicknamed by Donald Judd when he reviewed an exhibition of Stanczak’s work for Arts Magazine, and later used again in an article about the movement for Time Magazine entitled: “Op Art: Pictures that Attack the Eye.” As with all new art movements, it faced derision and negative interpretations when the public first encountered it, but to Stanczak’s credit...