Red, Green, and Blue Twisted Curves, 1979. The “spectator who looks at my work is part of the work itself,” Riley has said. Collection of the artist. ©Bridget ...
It’s hard to think of an artist whose work is more visually pleasing than that of British artist Bridget Riley. The Op Art painter is known for her eye-catching canvases featuring geometric patterns, ...
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A catchy name gives traction to an art movement: Abstraction Expressionism (AbX), Pop Art, or Op Art, short for “optical art One of the artists most associated with the latter was the English painter ...
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When op art attained a faddish popularity in the mid-1960s, its leading figure was Bridget Riley (b. 1931). The British painter’s early canvases, featuring fields of dynamic black-and-white patterns, ...
The day before I went to the Yale Center for British Art in New Haven for the full Bridget Riley retrospective, I sat for almost an hour on a bench in a small gallery in the Phillips Collection in ...
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A London hospital recently got a candy-colored makeover from Bridget Riley, the English painter at the forefront of the Op art movement. A colorful abstract mural–Riley’s first in 27 years–brightens ...