Jeffrey Steele obituary

Op art pioneer of the 1960s who maintained a sense of order and rationalism in his subsequent workA strict adherence to formalism and geometric abstraction led Jeffrey Steele, who has died aged 89, to pioneer op art. In the artist’s most famous works, through carefully planned, tightly controlled patterning, a sense of optical movement occurs on the canvas. His 1965 painting, Baroque Experiment: Fred Maddox, made for the exhibition The Responsive Eye at the Museum of Modern Art, New York,