Perceptual Art

知覚芸術

Dictionary entry

Op Art 1960s– / Style
Raises perceptual vibration and depth inside a still image through repeated line, form and value.
Light and Space 1960s– / Style
The Southern California movement that takes light itself, spatial perception and the limits of vision as material. Turrell's openings to the sky and Irwin's scrims make the act of seeing the artwork.
Neo-Impressionism 1886–1900 / Style
A method that replaced Impressionist intuition with optical theory, setting down dots of unmixed pure colour to be blended on the retina. The discipline of Divisionism and Pointillism tackled, in advance, the same problems as later halftone printing, mosaic and pixel-based image construction.
Kinetic Art 1950s–1970s / Style
Work defined by the condition that it actually moves, or that its image changes as the viewer moves. Mobiles, motor drives and layered grids producing moiré make time a structural element of the work. The foundation of the idea that motion itself is something to be designed.