A catchy name gives traction to an art movement: Abstraction Expressionism (AbX), Pop Art, or Op Art, short for “optical art One of the artists most associated with the latter was the English painter ...

Even for those familiar with modernism’s history in the latter half of the 20th century, the story of the life of the British painter Bridget Riley and the development of her work is not very well ...

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The Art Institute of Chicago has announced Bridget Riley Drawings: From the Artist's Studio, the first and most extensive American museum exhibition dedicated exclusively to Riley's drawings in over ...

Crest, 1964 (pictured below right), is particularly dazzling, with a pair of whiplash curves that speed up before your eyes and ripple back and forth at a bewildering pace. Crest leaps out of its ...

Bridget Riley, “About Yellow” (2014-2013), Oil on linen 64 1/8 x 109 7/8 inches (163 x 279 cm). (© Bridget Riley 2014. All rights reserved. Courtesy David ...

A donation last year of 14 giant bins of mostly unremarkable framed prints and paintings from a commercial building renovation in downtown Milwaukee has yielded an unexpected windfall for Habitat for ...

Op Art Legend Bridget Riley Gives Hospital A Candy-Colored Makeover It's the painter's first mural in nearly three decades Op Art Legend Bridget Riley Gives Hospital A Candy-Colored Makeover ...

These are the most basic forms of mark making, one of the earliest things we learn to draw when a pencil is first put in our hand and the essence of Bridget Riley’s life work. At face value this style ...

Bridget Riley's constructions create ripples in the flat world of geometry. For 40 years, Bridget Riley, pioneer of 'op art' (optical art) has used simple geometric shapes to make complex, sometimes ...