Who Arted: Weekly Art History for All Ages · Kyle Wood
Bridget Riley | Movement in Squares
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Bridget Riley's black-and-white squares seem to buckle and curve, making viewers feel dizzy as their eyes struggle to make sense of it.
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A clear, lively look at Bridget Riley's op art and the optical effects that made it stand out.
Who Arted treats Bridget Riley less like a museum label and more like a close look at how op art can fight with the eye. It follows her path into the movement, then moves through the influences behind her thinking, from Pollock's scale to Giacomo Balla's effort to capture…
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