Op Art Vocab

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Optical

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Having to do with the eye

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Illusion

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Drawing that makes a flat image appear to have space and depth.

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The Responsive Eye

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The 1965 Art exhibition that started the OP Art Movement.

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Contrast

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Equal parts of opposite colors causing confusion in our brains.

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Advance:

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Light colors come forward on the page.

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Recede

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dark colors go back on the page

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Movement in art

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When the art looks like it's moving.

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Complements

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two colors directly opposite each other on the color wheel

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This type of art is called

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A tessellation