Bridget Riley : New Work

— Éditeur(s) : Ostfildern, Hatje Cantz Verlag
— Année : 2002
— Format : 27 x 24 cm
— Illustrations : 35 en couleurs
— Page(s) : 84
— Langue(s) : anglais, allemand
— ISBN : 3-7757-1199-6
— Prix : 24,80 €

Présentation

With her abstract pictures, the British artist Bridget Riley entered both new visual and artistic territory in the sixties. The economy of pictorial means achieved in her works is quite unique and had a style-forming effect on all directions of so-called radical painting — and much further.
The concise overview over the artist´s newer works presented here emphasizes their immense importance for the contemporary practice of painting in the international art scene : after her first pictures, rigorously painted in black and white, she soon extended her expressive spectrum with colour contrasts and, using only five colours at the beginning, began to explore their interactions. Since about 1980 she has also been mixing a larger number of colours to form blocks and ensembles in free rhythms. Recently, Bridget Riley has abandoned the strictly formal pattern of a structure of stripes for a vertical register of broad striations crossed by diagonals, and she now uses up to 20 different colour shades — a flexibility which brings with it a more differentiated view of the relationships between colours. In her newest series of pictures, Riley returns to exploring curves and diagonals extending beyond picture boundaries and their exciting relations to the colour structure of painting.

L’artiste

Bridget Riley, born 1931 in London. In 1965, participation in « The Responsive Eye » at the Museum of Modern Art, New York. In 1968, International Award for Painting at the 34th Biennale in Venice. In 2000, extensive retrospective, Dia Art Foundation, New York.