Recently, I was invited to a private tour of the Bechtler Museum in downtown Charlotte. It's a modern art museum consisting of the many pieces from post world war two and a couple of Warhol's and Lichtenstein's. We had a very knowledgeable curator who told us countless facts on the works, and my favorite tid bit of information was that the abstract art created from optical allusions was nick named 'op' art- like pop art without the first 'p'.I'm a sucker for optical illusions, and not just because they're so fun to look at. I think it's interesting that our brain takes so much of the burden in processing sight; the eyes capture photons, but that's it. The rest of the mental processing puts the blurred images right side up, makes them neat and tidy, and then gives us depth perception and the like. It even processes the visual information so that we know immediately what we're looking at. Here's a couple of examples of op art that I particularly like- it's by an artist named Andy Gilmore (This is his site)
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