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Bridget Riley was born in 1931, a remarkable figure of British Op Art. Find more works of this artist at Wikiart.org – best visual art database.
- Royal Liverpool Hospital Installation
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- Cataract 3
‘Cataract 3’ was created in 1967 by Bridget Riley in Op Art...
- Chant 2
‘Chant 2’ was created in 1967 by Bridget Riley in Op Art...
- Blaze Study
‘Blaze Study’ was created in 1962 by Bridget Riley in Op Art...
- Kiss
‘Kiss’ was created in 1961 by Bridget Riley in Op Art style....
- Movement in Squares
‘Movement in Squares’ was created in 1961 by Bridget Riley...
- Royal Liverpool Hospital Installation
Bridget Louise Riley CH CBE (born 24 April 1931) is an English painter known for her op art paintings. [1] She lives and works in London, Cornwall and the Vaucluse in France. [2]
Riley became an icon, not just of Op art, but of contemporary British painting in the 1960s, and she was the first woman to win the painting prize at the Venice Biennale in 1968. Riley's innovations in art inspired a generation of Op artists, including Richard Allen and Richard Anuszkiewicz.
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.
For six decades, Bridget Riley has conducted one of art history’s most extensive investigations into the behaviour of colour and form. Emerging in conjunction with the Op Art movement during the 1960s, her paintings offer profound revelations about the workings of human perception.
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.
She first drew critical attention with the black-and-white paintings she made from 1961, and her international breakthrough came four years later in The Responsive Eye at MoMA, New York, which celebrated the Op art movement.
