| Bridget Riley (b. 1931) | ||
| ArtNet
Tate Gallery (no images 3/11/98)
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Growing up in England during World War II,
Bridget Riley had little formal schooling. She later studied at the Royal College of
Art in London but she was dissatisfied and left to take care of her father. She
helped support herself by selling glass and by teaching art to children. She would
have the children make pictures from "three colors and three spots," observing
that "they'd come up with hundreds of combinations." While traveling in Italy in 1960, she was motivated by the change brought about on a black and white tile piazza as a thunderstorm passed through. Her work is an effort to communicate this and other emotional experiences through optical effects. She strives to establish a cycle of patterns to create tension which she hopes will lead to emotional responses. At first she worked in black in white. She later turned to color to communicate calmer feelings.
Art & Man Magazine by Scholastic |
Riley
riles our eyes.