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Around 1960 she began to develop her signature Op Art style consisting of black and white geometric patterns that explore the dynamism of sight and produce a disorienting effect on the eye and produces movement and color.
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]
Mar 3, 2022 · Bridget Riley’s works became a famous example of Op art in the 1960s. Her art is characterized by geometric forms, high contrast, dizzying optical illusions, black and white shapes, and vibrant colors.
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.
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.
A primary practitioner of Op Art, Riley began as a student of neo-impressionism, and then graduated to Op Art in the 1960s. She was featured in the The Responsive Eye, the MoMA exhibit of 1965, and in 1968, she won the international painting prize at the Venice Biennale.
Mar 17, 2022 · Britain’s pre-eminent abstract painter looks anew at her career, from her black-and-white 1960s Op Art to her contemporary explorations with color.
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