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At young London designer David Koma's show, it fell in op-art formation on body-conscious dresses and in circles laser-cut out of leather dresses with the odd pompom placed here and there to emphasise the point.
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Exotic Socks on an Erotic Fox, 2010, Gouache, ink and acrylic on panel, 20 x 16 in ... which set the eye dancing in somewhat the same manner as op-art.
Peter Clothier: Gallery Rounds/Bergamot Station Peter Clothier 2011
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Exotic Socks on an Erotic Fox, 2010, Gouache, ink and acrylic on panel, 20 x 16 in ... which set the eye dancing in somewhat the same manner as op-art.
Peter Clothier: Gallery Rounds/Bergamot Station Peter Clothier 2011
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Christine Jones's op-art sets and Catherine Zuber's hippy-dippy costumes the show is set, for no obvious reason, in 1974 get really old really fast.
'Clear Day,' Muddled Effort Terry Teachout 2011
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Abiding figures Robert Breer and the abstract filmmaker Jordan Belson, whose cosmic op-art pieces anticipated the psychedelic light shows of the 1960s, died in August and September, respectively.
Picking Out Eye Candy Steve Dollar 2011
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Fashion designer and fabric-print whiz David David has created a signature bright op-art design.
Exhibitions picks of the week amp; Skye Sherwin 2010
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The first occurred around 1914 with the discovery of "the dazzle effect of colour juxtaposition", which was pioneered by the avant-garde artists of the op-art movement.
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These old-new pairings soon give way to what is effectively a miniature retrospective – early op-art, 80s stripes, the recent parallel curves and steeply flaring diagonals, cross-cut by verticals.
Bridget Riley: Paintings and Related Work – review Laura Cumming 2010
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The Myrtle had the distinctive "op-art" dazzle camouflage of black, grey and white shapes, which broke up the ship's outline at sea.
British warships sunk 90 years ago found off Estonian coast 2010
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A great believer in the comics medium, Mr. Pekar also used the form for music essays that graced CD jazz reissues and a New York Times op-art piece about the decline of the Cleveland economy.
Harvey Pekar dead: American Splendor comic writer was 70 2010
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