Illusions in paint

The answer

OPART

5 letters. See every clue for this answer on the OPART answer page.

Used 7 times across 5 distinct years; most recently in 2015; first recorded in 2001. It appears in 4 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

Other clues for OPART

Every other clue in this collection answered by OPART, most used first.

• Dizzying designs - used 76 times, most recently in 2026
• Eyeball benders - used 16 times, most recently in 2022
• Eyeball-bending drawings - used 16 times, most recently in 2026
• Dizzying pictures - used 14 times, most recently in 2020
• Dizzying genre - used 11 times, most recently in 2012
• Swirly prints - used 11 times, most recently in 2024
• Victor Vasarely's genre - used 9 times, most recently in 2022
• Visual illusion genre - used 9 times, most recently in 2021
• Bridget Riley's genre - used 8 times, most recently in 2019
• Eyeball-bending pictures - used 8 times, most recently in 2013
• Abstract style of the '60s - used 6 times, most recently in 2014
• Dizzying gallery display - used 6 times, most recently in 2012
• Eye-catching works - used 6 times, most recently in 2020

Related clues

Clues in this collection of the same answer length that share a word with this clue, or match its answer pattern when no word is shared. Most used first.

• Paint layers - COATS, used 25 times
• Layers of paint - COATS, used 24 times
• Paint base - LATEX, used 19 times
• Coat of paint - LAYER, used 17 times
• Kind of paint - LATEX, used 14 times
• Use finger paint - SMEAR, used 13 times

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