Movement in Squares, 1961, by Bridget Riley.
Reader question: “2D Op Art makes you feel like it’s 3D. So how do you create 3D Op Art?”
I received this question from a jewelry designer interested in creating jewelry inspired by Op Art, but did not know how to recreate the effect in a more sculptural form. It’s true that most Op Art is created on a 2D surface – creating the effect that it seems to be jumping off the page – but, as I will go through in this post, there were actually a few sculptors even in the original Op Art movement.