Jan Myers creates movement in her quilts through repetition and alternation of colors. Only after looking closely do we see that, like the keys on a piano, every square in the quilt moves up a note in value. Laid over the diagonal "cylinders" of graduated color is a beige grid that appears lighter or darker, depending on the colors behind it. Our eye races across this quilt, up and down and over the rolling cylinders.

In this painting there is no center of interest or resting place. Instead, the large yellow swatch on the left is counterbalanced by an even larger patch of its complementary color, purple, on the right. Different blues balance the oranges. The red soldier and apples are balanced by the greens. The pull of complementary color causes the viewer's attention to jump around the canvas, creating movement.

A pulsing rhythm is set in motion by alternating the direction of bands of diagonal lines in this painting. Op Art paintings, called Op because they often contain optical effects, often present dizzying rhythms like the pattern seen here.

A back-and-forth rhythm is implied by the calligraphic "writing" technique used to make this print. Thick and thin lines show directional movement as well.

By comparison to the activity of the previous print, this minimal work seems to stand still. Yet it has both rhythm and movement. Alternating blue squares at regular intervals set up a rhythm between shape and negative space, and suggest movement from one square to the next.