(BLACK PANTHERS) Black Power

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(BLACK PANTHERS.) Black Power. "Op art" piece with a dizzying white on black design of concentric squares, growing smaller and smaller towards the center where the line ends; and the words "Black Power" in red at the bottom, not signed. Np, [1960's]

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The first piece of "Op Art" relative to the black power movement that we have ever seen. Op Art is derived from the constructivist practices of the Bauhaus. The German school, founded by Walter Gropius, stressed the relationship of form and function within a framework of analysis and rationality. Students were taught to focus on the overall design, or entire composition, in order to present unified works. When the Bauhaus was forced to close in 1933, many of its instructors fled to the United States where the movement took root in Chicago and eventually at the Black Mountain College in Asheville, North Carolina, where Anni and Josef Albers would come to teach.