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Eye-Popping Op Art Lesson Plan

Eye-Popping Op Art Lesson Plan

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Eye-Popping Op Art

Students examine and discuss work of Hungarian artist Victor Vasarely, recognize visual components of Op Art, compare traditional Renaissance perspective with Op Art's illusion of three-dimensional space, and create original painting that creates illusion of three dimensions.

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Concepts

pop art, 3-d figures, 3-d

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2-dimensional, 3-dimensional, crayola, op art, vasarely

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Grade

K - 12th

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