opticalityn.
/ˌɒptᵻˈkalᵻti/, U.S. /ˌɑptəˈkælədi/ Visual quality or effect, esp. in relation to art. Cf. op art n.
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society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > period, movement, or school of art > late 19th and 20th centuries > [noun] > op art
op art1964
optical art1964
opticality1968
1968 Arts Mag. Feb. 15 He is willing to deal with the optical nature of painting rather than color, opticality being a more accurate way of describing what happens between various hues, values and tones.
1986 New Lit. Hist. 17 316 This opticality might be assumed as a basis for composition and construction, or it might be taken as a hypothesis of the examination of visual experience.
1998 New Yorker 27 July 13/3 Examples of sixties color-field painting..reinforce recent tendencies toward a new psychedelic opticality.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, June 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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