The Cleveland Museum of Art
Collection Online as of April 20, 2024
Blue Bloc
1967
(American, 1929–2017)
Framed: 127 x 127 cm (50 x 50 in.); Unframed: 121.9 x 121.9 cm (48 x 48 in.)
Anonymous Gift, by Exchange 2010.261
© 1967, Edwin Mieczkowski, All rights reserved
Location: 228A Cleveland Artists
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Op Art is short for optical art, which employs visual illusions.Description
Op Art practitioner Mieczkowski created this painting in order to explore some of the perceptual effects of overlapping forms and colors. Featuring 1,316 three-quarter circular shapes in blues, greens, and yellows arrayed against a checkerboard background with gradations of gray, black, and white, Blue Bloc seems to morph in and out of focus across its surface while simultaneously pulsating from within.- "Op Out of Ohio," D. Wigmore Fine Art, New York, April 15-July 9, 2010"Optic Nerve: Perceptual Art of the 1960s," Columbus Museum of Art, Ohio, February 16-June 17, 2007"Ed Mieczkowski: Visual Paradox: Transforming Perception, Forty Years of Op Art and Geometric Abstraction," LewAllen Contemporary, Santa Fe, NM, April 14-May 26, 2006"Perceptual Inquiry I: Overlap," Anonima Gallery, New York, April 3-29, 1967
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