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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.
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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 ]
Bridget Riley was born in 1931 in London, but when World War II broke out she left the city and moved to Cornwall. She would walk along the coastline and explore the caves where she would sit and watch the reflections in rock pools.
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.
- British
- April 24, 1931
- London, UK
Jun 2, 2021 · In an exclusive interview with BBC Newsnight, Riley, who is one of the UK's most renowned artists, described herself as a sort of creative sociologist. "I held a mirror up to human...
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.