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Op Art: Educator Resources

Resources for any educator wishing to incorporate Op Art into the curriculum. Age/grade recommendations are included, but all plans and ideas should be easily adaptable for younger or older students.

Exploring Optical Movement in Art

A lesson plan for two 40-minute sessions, including standard, materials, background information, vocabulary and, of course, the activity itself. Geared toward students in elementary grades 4-6, and part of the larger ArtsWork site.

Op Art Circles

A pretty straightforward lesson plan for secondary-age students, the focus of which is to create a piece of Op art. From the much larger site KinderArt.

Psychedelic Checkerboard Op Art

A lesson plan for creating a "checkerboard" design using vertical lines and concentric circles. The top of this page contains the lesson as written for grades 4-6, while the bottom has the adaptation for grades 3-4.

Vasarely and Op Art Lesson Plan

A lesson plan for two 45-minute periods, aimed at students in grades 4-6. The plan has a lot of detailed edu-speak throughout, but it looks like the whole concept boils down to teaching the artistic principle of repetition.

Vasarely Bubble

This is just a nice little applet created in JavaSketchpad that illustrates the distorted grids with which Vasarely so frequently worked. One needs only the ability to drag one's cursor.

Licium's Technology Resources: Optical Illusions

If you're looking for an all-in-one page of optical illusion graphics, this is a good starting point.

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