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Dating from 1959, Gruppo N numbers five young artists more adept with pliers and power drills than brushes who meet for seminars once a week. Says N-Man Manfredo Massironi, 27, "We consider ourselves technicians, in the medieval sense, rather than artists." Going to the Nth degree, they use prisms and grids, often machine-driven, whose rippling moiré patterns look more vibrant through spotlighted darkness (at left, top). A similar splinter group is Spain's Equipo 57, who like others sign their work collectively (lower left). Their theory starts with "interactivity," in which any two planes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: OP ART: PICTURES THAT ATTACK THE EYE | 10/23/1964 | See Source »

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