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Bridget Riley, (Londres, 24 de Abril de 1931) é uma pintora inglesa, considerada um dos maiores expoentes da Op art. Estudou na Golsmith´s school of art em Londres, em 1952 a 1955. Sua primeira exposição individual foi em 1962 na Gallery One.
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Bridget Riley, ( Londres, 24 de abril de 1931) é uma pintora inglesa, considerada um dos maiores expoentes da Op art. Estudou na Golsmith´s school of art em Londres, em 1952 a 1955. Sua primeira exposição individual foi em 1962 na Gallery One.
- Early Life and Education
- Seurat's Way of Seeing
- Work
- Exhibitions
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Riley was born on 24 April 1931 in Norwood, London. Her father, John Fisher Riley, originally from Yorkshire, had been an Army officer. He was a printer by trade and owned his own business. In 1938, he relocated the printing business, together with his family, to Lincolnshire. At the beginning of World War II, her father, a member of the Territoria...
Riley's mature style, developed during the 1960s, was influenced by sources like the French Neo-Impressionist artist Georges Seurat. In 2015–6, the Courtauld Gallery, in its exhibition Bridget Riley: Learning from Seurat, made the case for how Seurat's pointillism influenced her towards abstract painting. As a young artist in 1959, Riley saw The Br...
It was during this period that Riley began to paint the black and white works for which she first became 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 a variety of sensations in viewers, from seasickness to the feeling of sky diving. From 1961 ...
In 1965, Riley exhibited in the Museum of Modern Art in New York City show, The Responsive Eye (created by curator William C. Seitz); the exhibition which first drew worldwide attention to her work and the Op Art movement. Her painting Current, 1964, was reproduced on the cover of the show's catalogue. The absence of copyright protectionfor artists...
Artists Ross Bleckner and Philip Taaffe made paintings paying homage to the work of Riley in the 80s. In 2013, Riley claimed that a wall-sized, black-and-white checkerboard work by Tobias Rehberger plagiarised her painting Movement in Squares and asked for it to be removed from display at the Berlin State Library's reading room.
In 1963, Riley was awarded the AICA Critics Prize as well as the John Moores, Liverpool Open Section Prize. A year later, she received a Peter Stuyvesant Foundation Travel bursary. In 1968, she received an International Painting Prize at the Venice Biennale. In 1974, she was named a Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire. Riley...
Riley is a Patron of Paintings in Hospitals, a charity established in 1959 to provide art for health and social care in England, Wales and Northern Ireland. Between 1987 and 2014, she created three murals across the eighth, ninth and tenth floors of the Queen Elizabeth Queen Mother Wing, St Mary's Hospital, London. In 2017, alongside Yoko Ono and T...
2006, Untitled (Diagonal Curve) (1966), a black-and-white canvas of dizzying curves, was bought by Jeffrey Deitch at Sotheby'sfor $2.1 million, nearly three times its $730,000 high estimate and als...February 2008, the artist's dotted canvas Static 2 (1966) brought £1,476,500 ($2.9 million), far exceeding its £900,000 ($1.8 million) high estimate, at Christie'sin London.July 2008, Chant 2 (1967), part of the trio shown in the Venice Biennale, went to a private American collector for £2,561,250 ($5.1 million), at Sotheby's.March 2022, Gala(1974) sold for £4,362,000 ($5.8 million) at the 2022 Modern British Art Evening Sale in Christie's, London.Bridget Riley A Very Very Person: The Early Years(London: Ridinghouse, 2019). Text by Paul Moorhouse. ISBN 9781909932500Bridget Riley: The Stripe Paintings 1961–2014 (New York: David Zwirner Books, 2014). Texts by Robert Kudielka, Paul Moorhouse, and Richard Shiff. ISBN 9780989980975Bridget Riley: The Stripe Paintings 1961–2012 (London: Ridinghouse; Berlin: Holzwarth Publications and Galerie Max Hetzler, 2013). Texts by John Elderfield, Robert Kudielka and Paul Moorhouse.Bridget Riley: Works 1960–1966 (London: Ridinghouse, 2012). Bridget Riley in conversation with David Sylvester(1967) and with Maurice de Sausmarez (1967).36 artworks by or after Bridget Riley at the Art UKsiteOngoing exhibitions of Bridget Riley Archived 10 June 2008 at the Wayback Machine20 de abr. de 2024 · 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 (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.
Bridget Riley's geometric paintings implore the viewer to reflect on how it physically feels to look. Her paintings of the 1960s became synonymous with the Op Art movement, which exploited optical illusions to make the two-dimensional surface of the painting seem to move, vibrate, and sparkle.
Aprenda sobre a vida e as contribuições artísticas de Bridget Riley, uma pintora e gravadora inglesa mais conhecida por suas peças de Op Art.
