Word: ops
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...program began with five piano pieces from as sorted opera by Arnold Schoenberg. Except for the final Op. 11 No. 3, all were in Schoenberg's innovating twelve-tone idiom...
...post-abstract expressionist era of the '60s, modern art has been racing ahead at a frantic clip that is a challenge to its chroniclers. In recent years the editors have taken the readers through the worlds of pop and op (a TIME coinage, by the way) and on to kinetic and minimal. This week it's luminal. In a wide-ranging story, the Art section surveys the work of a new group of practitioners who "paint" in light. As usual in TIME, the story is supported by a portfolio of color illustrations...
Psychedevotional at Ohm. Op art has conditioned gallerygoers to accept art that visually leaps from the wall to assault the optic jugular. Much luminal art is similarly turned on. The USCO group of Garnerville, N.Y., can induce the hallucinatory traumas that occur in some LSD trips by means of blinding strobe lights-the visual equivalent of the electronic scream at the end of the Beatles' record Penny Lane...
...question about the use of light as a medium is, of course, whether it can produce great works of art or will remain merely intriguing decoration. Certainly luminal art is dazzling, far more mysterious than the jeeringly antisocial comment of pop, far more alive and sprightly than two dimensional op. Yet, like op, it often seems to be all surface and no content. In part, the problem lies in the novelty of the art and the difficulty its practitioners find in rising above the welter of technological gimmickry. But, unless some way is found to build luminal constructions far more...
Robert C. Scull, collector of op, pop, and other art forms, will speak on "The Direction of Contemporary Art" at 8 p.m. tonight in the Kirkland...