Bridget Riley (1931 – )
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COLOURED GREYS 3 1972 Bridget Riley (1931 – ) P1601
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FINAL SEQUENCE STUDY FOR PAINTING 1974 Bridget Riley (1931 – ) P1731 © Bridget Riley 2020. All rights reserved.
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UNTITLED 1971 Bridget Riley (1931 – ) P1496
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FINAL CARTOON FOR PAINTING 1973 Bridget Riley (1931 – ) P1732 © Bridget Riley 2020. All rights reserved.
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CREST 1964 Bridget Riley (1931 – ) P2171
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UNTITLED 1965 Bridget Riley (1931 – ) P1041
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UNTITLED 1965 Bridget Riley (1931 – ) P1040
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UNTITLED 1965 Bridget Riley (1931 – ) P1036
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START 2000 Bridget Riley (1931 – ) P7326
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COLOURED GREYS 2 1972 Bridget Riley (1931 – ) P1600
Bridget Riley was born in London, and spent the war years living in Cornwall. After a spasmodic start to her education, she returned to London to study at Goldsmiths College, graduating to the Royal College of Art in 1952. Her approach to painting was slow to evolve and it was not until 1960 that she made her first essays into optical painting during visits to Spain and Italy. All her paintings of the early 1960s were in black and white. Riley quickly developed a style comprising regular patterns of line and colour which cover the entire surface of the painting and appear to shift and vibrate while they are in fact static and rigid. Colour was introduced in 1966, first as warmer and cooler greys, then as vivid contrasting pairs such as red and turquoise. The artist described these works as being concerned with principles of ‘repose and disturbance’.
Glossary
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Painting
Work of art made with paint on a surface. Often the surface, also called a support, is a tightly stretched piece of canvas, paper or a wooden panel. Painting involves a wide range of techniques and materials, along with the artist's intellectual concerns effecting the content of a work.