Carlos Cruz-Diez
(1923 - 2019)
 

Carlos Cruz-Diez was a Venezuelan artist who played a central role in the development of Kinetic and Op art. His work focused on the perceptual and spacial experience of color, presenting it as an autonomous event rather than a descriptive tool.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlos_Cruz-Diez

Physichromie No. 965
1977
mixed media
150 x 100 cm
Art Museum of the Americas
Washington, United States
https://www.oas.org/artsoftheamericas/carlos-cruz-diez

Physichromie No. 965, and other works from that period, use the reflective nature of metal strips to produce colors in addition to those physically silkscreened onto the support of the work, resulting in what Cruz-Diez has called “a continuous evolutionary event involving chromatic atmospheres.” He used red, yellow, blue, white, and black on the support, but as the viewer alters position in relation to the work, the colors visible on the surface change and create an awareness of the concomitant passage of light and time. -Text by Mark Andrew White

 Bridget Riley
(b. 1931)

Bridget Louise Riley CH CBE  is an English painter known for her op art paintings. She lives and works in London, Cornwall and the Vaucluse in France.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bridget_Riley

Arrest 2
1965
Acrylic on linen
195 cm x 190 cm 
The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, United States

Art critics of the 1960s dubbed Riley's optical painting style Op Art. By the time her work was exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art in New York in 1965, it already had been embraced by the fashion and design industry. Today her paintings are inspiring a new generation of abstractionists because of what they say about the magic of seeing.

Almir Mavignier
(1925 - 2018)

Almir Mavignier, real name: Almir da Silva Mavignier was a painter and graphic artist of Brazilian descent living in Germany, internationally known as an artistic representative of Concrete Art, Op Art and as a commercial artist.

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Almir_Mavignier

A-4
1973
serigrafia sobre PVC-folie
90 x 90 cm
Private collection

Alberto Biasi
(B. 1937)
 

Alberto Biasi was a co-founder of Gruppo N, a key Italian collective whose members explored visual perception and optical effects.
His pieces, including works titled “Dinamica,” are structured to create optical movement and perceptual instability: as the viewer changes position, the work seems to shift, pulse, or vibrate.

https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alberto_Biasi

Dinamica obliqua
1966
PVC relief on board
162 by 207 cm
Ministero degli Affari Esteri e della Cooperazione Internazionale. Collezione Farnesina, Rome, Italy

 Władysław Ślewiński
(1856 - 1918)

Władysław Ślewiński was a Polish painter. He was one of Gauguin's students and a leading artist of the Young Poland movement.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Władysław Ślewiński

Woman Combing Her Hair
1909
64 x 91 cm
Oil on canvas
The National Museum in Krakow, Kraków, Poland
https://zbiory.mnk.pl/en/highlights/catalog/99851

Héléna Arsène Darmesteter
(1850 - 1940)
 

Héléna Arsène Darmesteter, born Héléna Hartog  was a British portrait painter.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Héléna_Arsène_Darmesteter

 

The Choice of a Flower (aka Reflection in a Mirror)
1896
Oil on canvas
90 x 60 cm
Ben Uri, London, United Kingdom
https://benuri.org/artworks/1731-helena-darmesteter-the-choice-of-a-flower-aka-reflection-in-1896/

Alison Elizabeth Taylor
(b. 1972)

Alison Elizabeth Taylor is an American artist based out of New York City. She is known for her marquetry hybrid work combining Renaissance-style marquetry with painting and collage to depict contemporary subject matter. Her exhibitions have been covered in The New York Times, The New Yorker, and The Village Voice.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alison_Elizabeth_Taylor

Anthony Cuts under the Williamsburg Bridge, Morning
2020
Marquetry hybrid (wood veneers, oil paint, acrylic paint, inkjet prints, shellac, and sawdust on wood)
66.5 x 85 cm
Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery, Washington, United States
https://portraitcompetition.si.edu/exhibition/2022-outwin-boochever-portrait-competition/anthony-cuts-under-williamsburg-bridge-morning/
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/a-vibrant-portrait-of-a-covid-era-haircut-claims-first-prize-in-the-outwin-competition-180979994/

On walks around her Brooklyn neighborhood during the COVID-19 lockdowns, Alison Elizabeth Taylor encountered the hair groomer Anthony Payne, who, with his workplace shuttered, had taken his scissors, mirror, and chair to the streets. Payne sought to financially support the Black Lives Matter movement, especially in the aftermath of George Floyd’s murder, and turned over proceeds from his donation-based haircuts to organizations advocating for social justice.

Taylor’s process, one she developed and named “marquetry hybrid,” incorporates vivid paints, inkjet prints, and the natural grains of over one hundred veneers. Marquetry, with its inlaid combination of woods, can “memorialize,” Taylor notes. She acknowledges the history of the craft, which was favored by Louis XIV (1654–1715) when he was acquiring furniture for Versailles.