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Andrade listed artists who particularly influenced her style including Paul Klee, Piet
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is a 48-inch square oil painting featuring black and white rectangles. The edges bend inward, pulling the viewer into the center of the canvas, creating an illusionary experience. She implements curvilinear lines to create an illusionistic space, in which the audience visually experiences movement
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As a part of the Op art movement, Andrade's style confronts the nature of perception, creating highly abstracted, geometric images. Her oil paintings possess illusionistic qualities, hence "optical art." As
Andrade began creating illusionistic art, she shifted from organic abstraction to hard-edge
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Andrade's style of painting often produces hallucinatory compositions, psychedelic in appearance and often as if they are moving. Her paintings have no narrative, nor subject matter, which situate
Andrade as an abstract artist. In an interview with
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In 1997, the Leeway
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movement refers to paintings and sculptures that use illusions or optical effects. Op art includes graphic elements and use of color that similarly appears in works from other movements such as
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Beginning in the 1950s, Andrade painted highly abstract, geometric paintings that used a limited color palette and variety of shapes. Her work is in numerous collections including the
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In 1991 Andrade received
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movement and other examples of German modernism. The artistic experimentation happening in Europe influences
Andrade's approach to design, color, and abstraction.
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Andrade's artwork was more popular toward the end of her career and after her death. Although she is considered an influential Op artist, she was left out of the
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Contemporary Art. Edna Andrade: Optical Paintings, 1963-1986. exh. cat., text by Debra Bricker Balken and Ingrid Schaffner. Philadelphia. 2003.
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was specifically inspired by things such as astrophysics and
Freudian psychology, contributing to the complexity and detail of her paintings.
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