Bridget Riley
Bridget Louise Riley CH CBE is an English painter who is one of the foremost exponents of Op art. She currently lives and works in London, Cornwall, and France. Wikipedia
Born: April 24, 1931 (age 82), London, United Kingdom
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Cataract 3 - Bridget Riley 1967 PVA on canvas 223.5 x 222
“The music of colour, that’s what I want” (Bridget Riley)
Riley’s introduction of colour to her work was something she was cautious of. The black and white paintings depended on the disruption of stable elements. No such stable basis could be found for colour as the perception of colour is relative – each colour affects and is affected by the colours next to it. Over time, she began to accept this inherent instability and made it the basis of her work.
From 1967 onwards Riley increasingly began to use colour. She also started to use more stabilised forms – often simple vertical straight or wavy lines. It was the positioning of the colour itself that produced the feel of movement she wanted to convey. The colour groupings affected the spaces between them to produce fleeting glimpses of other colours and hence the illusion of movement.
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It was during this time that Riley began to paint the black and white works for which she is best known. They present a great variety of geometric forms that produce sensations of movement or colour. In the early 1960s, her works were said to induce sensation in viewers as varied as seasick and sky diving. From 1961 to 1964 she worked with the contrast of black and white, occasionally introducing tonal scales of grey. Works in this style comprised her first 1962 solo show at Musgrave's Gallery One, as well as numerous subsequent shows. For example, in Fall, a single perpendiculars curve is repeated to create a field of varying optical frequencies.Visually, these works relate to many concerns of the period: a perceived need for audience participation (this relates them to the Happenings, for which the period is famous), challenges to the notion of the mind-body duality which led Aldous Huxley to experiment with hallucinogenic drugs[citation needed]; concerns with a tension between a scientific future which might be very beneficial or might lead to a nuclear war; and fears about the loss of genuine individual experience in a Brave New World.Her paintings have, since 1961, been executed by assistants from her own endlessly edited studies.
Riley began investigating colour in 1967, the year in which she produced her first stripe painting.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bridget_Riley
I like to think this work gives off a certain vibe when they see this, it will give them a feel as if they feel like what they see is not only a painting but a short trip of using colours.
It was during this time that Riley began to paint the black and white works for which she is best known. They present a great variety of geometric forms that produce sensations of movement or colour. In the early 1960s, her works were said to induce sensation in viewers as varied as seasick and sky diving. From 1961 to 1964 she worked with the contrast of black and white, occasionally introducing tonal scales of grey. Works in this style comprised her first 1962 solo show at Musgrave's Gallery One, as well as numerous subsequent shows. For example, in Fall, a single perpendiculars curve is repeated to create a field of varying optical frequencies.Visually, these works relate to many concerns of the period: a perceived need for audience participation (this relates them to the Happenings, for which the period is famous), challenges to the notion of the mind-body duality which led Aldous Huxley to experiment with hallucinogenic drugs[citation needed]; concerns with a tension between a scientific future which might be very beneficial or might lead to a nuclear war; and fears about the loss of genuine individual experience in a Brave New World.Her paintings have, since 1961, been executed by assistants from her own endlessly edited studies.
Riley began investigating colour in 1967, the year in which she produced her first stripe painting.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bridget_Riley
I like to think this work gives off a certain vibe when they see this, it will give them a feel as if they feel like what they see is not only a painting but a short trip of using colours.
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