Bridget Riley - Paintings And Related Works 1983-2010
Lynne Cooke
Holzwarth Publications, ISBN 9783935567534,
Hb, 88 pgs, 24 x 30cm
34 ills
Acqn. 20765
In Stock
£29.95
Hb, 88 pgs, 24 x 30cm
34 ills
Acqn. 20765
In Stock
£29.95
The British artist Bridget Riley is one of the key figures in Op Art. Her optically dynamic paintings address the issue of seeing itself. Back in the 1960s, the optical effects of her black-and-white pictures created quite a stir: today they are seen as emblematic of that era. In her essay "Work" (2009), she makes the finely tuned development from her earlier monochrome paintings to today's colourful pictures very comprehensible: "The challenge of colour had to be met on its own terms. Just as I had enquired earlier into the square and other geometric forms freed from their conceptual roles, I now felt I had to enquire into colour as another pictorial player-in many ways the least emancipated and possibly the most complex of all." In the process of creating her powerful stripes and rhombuses, Riley first of all focused on effects that emerged through colour contrasts. Later, she found a new form for her colour works in the combination of verticals and diagonals, to which she started adding vertical curves and waves by the end of the 1990s.