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Bridget Louise Riley CH CBE (born 24 April 1931) is an English painter known for her op art paintings. She lives and works in London, Cornwall and the Vaucluse in France. [2]
Bridget Louise Riley (born 24 April 1931) is an English painter known for her op art paintings.
Bridget Louise Riley (born 24 April 1931) is an English painter known for her op art paintings. She lives and works in London, Cornwall and the Vaucluse in France.
Bridget Riley, English artist whose optical pattern paintings were central to the Op art movement of the 1960s. Her work took on a geometric abstraction, in which intricate patterns of black and white and, later, alternating colors were calculated to produce illusions of movement and topography.
Bridget Riley's geometric paintings implore the viewer to reflect on how it physically feels to look. Her paintings of the 1960s became synonymous with the Op Art movement, which exploited optical illusions to make the two-dimensional surface of the painting seem to move, vibrate, and sparkle.
Bridget Riley produced her first stripe painting in 1967, while she was still in the process of studying color and movement. Some of her later works would portray different compositions such as her tessellating patterns in the ’80s.
Jun 2, 2021 · Bridget Riley never ceases to amaze. Throughout her career, the visionary artist has continually challenged the ways we see and understand the world around us. Now, aged 90, she has no intention...
The distinguished abstract artist Bridget Riley, invited the photographer Eamonn McCabe to record her preparations for this summer's major exhibition of her work at Tate Britain
Sep 28, 2003 · Bridget Riley is one of Britain’s best-known artists. Since the mid-1960s she has been celebrated for her distinctive, optically vibrant paintings which actively engage the viewer’s sensations and perceptions, producing visual experiences that are complex and challenging, subtle and arresting.
Bridget Riley (b London, 24 Apr. 1931). British painter and designer, rivalled only by Vasarely as the most celebrated exponent of Op art. Her interest in optical effects came partly through her study of Seurat's technique of pointillism, but when she took up Op art in the early 1960s she worked initially in black and white.
