Bridget Riley Biography

Bridget Riley, Artist
Born asBridget Louise Riley
Occup.Artist
FromUnited Kingdom
BornApril 24, 1931
Norwood, London, England, UK
Age92 years
Bridget Riley is an English painter, a leading number in the artistic activity of Op Art developed complicated configurations of abstract types developed to create striking optical impacts.

Riley was born on in London, where she examined in between 1949-1952 at Goldsmiths College, where she specialized in illustration, and also later at the Royal Academy. In the late 1950's she was influenced by the pointillism of Georges Seurat, as the painter Maurice de Sausmarez, an excellent admirer of the work of Riley, which she later on dedicated a monograph (1970), encouraged her to study it. Nevertheless, Riley accomplished a great track record through abstract paintings executed in the 1960s, later celebrated numerous retrospective events of his jobs, like the one arranged in 1971 the Hayward Gallery.

After his initial pointillist phase, Riley experienced by 1960 with a paint of big locations of level colors, before numerous black and white works in between 1961 and 1965. In its second phase, focused on developing collection of geometric forms, discreetly various in shapes and size to obtain a sense of activity said, as can be seen in The Fall (1963, London). At the end of the 1960 Riley trying out various other optical gadgets, paint with pure colors complementary lines, which affected the understanding juxtaposition of private shades intense.

Throughout the 1970's raised its range of shades, including both black and also white. Despite its high degree of abstraction, the jobs of Riley try to evoke the visual experience of the world, which can be figured out, for example, in the series of paintings in 1980 after a trip to Egypt.

The significance of Riley is due mainly to his payment to the advancement of Op Art In addition to influencing the job of musicians from other nations, had numerous aides who finished a number of his paints according to their styles and also directions. This highlights that, like a lot of the art of the late twentieth century, the conceptual element of their work ends up being more vital than the individual top quality of its execution.

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13 Famous quotes by Bridget Riley

Small: Painting is, I think, inevitably an archaic activity and one that depends on spiritual values
"Painting is, I think, inevitably an archaic activity and one that depends on spiritual values"
Small: I work with nature, although in completely new terms
"I work with nature, although in completely new terms"
Small: Painters have always needed a sort of veil upon which they can focus their attention. Its as though the
"Painters have always needed a sort of veil upon which they can focus their attention. It's as though the more fully the consciousness is absorbed, the greater the freedom of the spirit behind"
Small: There was a time when meanings were focused and reality could be fixed when that sort of belief disappe
"There was a time when meanings were focused and reality could be fixed; when that sort of belief disappeared, things became uncertain and open to interpretation"
Small: In my earlier paintings, I wanted the space between the picture plane and the spectator to be active
"In my earlier paintings, I wanted the space between the picture plane and the spectator to be active"
Small: As the artist picks his way along, rejecting and accepting as he goes, certain patterns of enquiry emer
"As the artist picks his way along, rejecting and accepting as he goes, certain patterns of enquiry emerge"
Small: As a painter today you have to work without that essential platform. But if one does not deceive onesel
"As a painter today you have to work without that essential platform. But if one does not deceive oneself and accepts this lack of certainty, other things may come into play"
Small: An artists early work is inevitably made up of a mixture of tendencies and interests, some of which are
"An artist's early work is inevitably made up of a mixture of tendencies and interests, some of which are compatible and some of which are in conflict"
Small: I used to build up to sensation, accumulating tension until it released a perceptual experience
"I used to build up to sensation, accumulating tension until it released a perceptual experience"
Small: Focusing isnt just an optical activity, it is also a mental one
"Focusing isn't just an optical activity, it is also a mental one"
Small: His failures are as valuable as his successes: by misjudging one thing he conforms something else, even
"His failures are as valuable as his successes: by misjudging one thing he conforms something else, even if at the time he does not know what that something else is"
Small: I think this lack of a center has something to do with the loss of certainties that Christianity had to
"I think this lack of a center has something to do with the loss of certainties that Christianity had to offer"
Small: For me nature is not landscape, but the dynamism of visual forces
"For me nature is not landscape, but the dynamism of visual forces"