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Riley, Bridget |
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Riley, Bridget, 1931–, English painter. Associated with the pop art pop art, a movement that first emerged in Great Britain at the end of the 1950s as a reaction against the seriousness of abstract expressionism . British and American pop artists employed a common imagery found in comic strips, soup cans, and Coke bottles to express ..... Click the link for more information. movement, Riley covers large canvases with interlocking bands, undulating curves, scattered discs, or repeated squares or triangles. Because of their sequential arrangement and the relationship of their color values, these patterns create optical sensations of rhythmically vibrating surfaces. She is responsible for the interior decoration of the Royal Liverpool Hospital, where her color choices (blue, yellow, pink, and white) were intended to relax patients. Riley is represented in the Museum of Modern Art, New York City. BibliographySee study by M. de Sausmarez (1970). How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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The new, shaped paintings that crowded veteran New Mexico-based artist Paul Sarkisian's ten-year retrospective not only smack vaguely of anime, they look like the kind of thing that Bridget Riley might produce were she to embark on a second career in packaging design: wavy-edged fields of emerald and magenta applied to panels that seem inspired as much by Karim Rashid as Frank Stella. Bridget Riley, a captain and longtime member of the group, was one of the judges at the event. Few then, or since, have thought to contextualize her '60s paintings with concurrent efforts by Robert Irwin, Jo Baer, Bridget Riley, and perhaps Josef Albers, as well as Reinhardt, all of whom investigated a phenomenologically grounded perception through the construction of a de-differentiated spatial field premised on the grid. |
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