Word: ops
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...find it hard to understand Robert Hughes' praise of Bridget Riley's Op art [May 1]. Unless I have it serviced regularly, I get pretty much the same pictures on my television...
...short-lived "movements" that agitated the surface of art in the 1960s, Op art had the briefest life. What became of all those eye-teasing patterns, those blips and dazzles and other paraphernalia of quick-shot visual illusion? Gone, mostly: either degenerating into unctuously chic decor-as with European artists like Yaacov Agam or, in his late work, Victor Vasarely-or vanishing into that limbo of taste where obsolete experiments go. Today's supergraphics wrap tomorrow's garbage...
Apart from the Venezuelan artist Jesus-Raphael Soto, only one of the painters on whom the Op label was stuck ten years ago seems to have really developed, continuing to produce work of the utmost seriousness. She is an Englishwoman named Bridget Riley, whose first New York show in seven years opened last week at the Sidney Janis Gallery...
...Times Op Ed page, where the photo finally appeared last week. It was accompanied by Veteran Viet Nam Reporter Gloria Emerson's article about the men in it and their role in Viet Nam's continuing tragedy. Emerson, now a freelance writer, wrote, "I wonder if their dreams are dark and ugly things, if any of them trembled and turned away from the television films of Vietnamese refugees weeping, pleading, talking to themselves." Did they? General Creighton W. Abrams died last September. The ten others showed no signs of trembling and have turned away to other tasks...
...Maze Book, subtitled Extraordinary Puzzles for Extraordinary People, is a collection of some three dozen pen-and-ink drawings that are not only a fiendishly frustrating challenge to the cocktail-table Theseus but also are art works of amazing-so to speak-delicacy and variety. Some resemble Op art, others an elaborate electronic circuit; they look like a nexus of noodles, or paranoid doodles, or 18th century chinoiserie. Some of these Bright ideas are even designed with no exits or entrances...