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Bridget Louise Riley CH CBE (born 24 April 1931) is an English painter known for her op art paintings. [1] She lives and works in London, Cornwall and the Vaucluse in France. [ 2 ]
Movement in Squares, by Bridget Riley 1961. Op art, short for optical art, is a style of visual art that uses optical illusions. [1]Op artworks are abstract, with many better-known pieces created in black and white.
"Bridget Riley Drawings: From the Artist's Studio" features 24 little-seen figurative and landscape works, plus 65 mostly geometric abstractions for which she is today well-known.
In the early 1970s Allen was involved with Bridget Riley and Peter Sedgley's artist cooperative at the Match Shed in London. In 1970 his large two colour stripe acrylic Op art paintings on canvas were installed at the Match Shed in London (Images from Richard Allen's website) and he had a one-man show at Angela Flowers in 1971.
The following is a list of notable op artists: Yaacov Agam (born 1928) Josef Albers (1888–1976) Richard Allen (1933–1999) Getulio Alviani (1939–2018) Edna Andrade (1917–2008) Anonima group; Richard Anuszkiewicz (1930–2020) Marina Apollonio (born 1940) Gianni Colombo (1937–1993) Carlos Cruz-Díez (1923–2019) Tony DeLap (1927–2019)
In most European countries, it generally included the form of optical art that mainly makes use of optical illusions, such as op art, represented by Bridget Riley, as well as art based on movement represented by Yacov Agam, Carlos Cruz-Diez, Jesús Rafael Soto, Gregorio Vardanega, Martha Boto or Nicolas Schöffer.
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