Riley Large Fragment
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About This Work
In *Riley Large Fragment*, Bridget Riley distils her signature Op Art language into a commanding, close-cropped field of optical sensation. Using meticulously calibrated intervals of line and colour, Riley activates the viewer’s perception—producing vibration, movement, and shifting spatial depth across a seemingly flat surface. The “fragment” format heightens this intensity, presenting the composition as an excerpt from a larger visual continuum, where structure and sensation are held in dynamic tension. Rooted in post-war abstraction yet continually contemporary, Riley’s practice links modernist rigour with embodied experience, anticipating today’s conversations around attention, visual culture, and the phenomenology of seeing. This work exemplifies Riley’s enduring influence on contemporary painting and kinetic perception.
About the Artist
Bridget Louise Riley CH CBE (born 24 April 1931) is an English painter known for her singular op art paintings. She lives and works in London, Cornwall and the Vaucluse in France. Riley was born at Norwood, London, the daughter of a businessman. Her childhood was spent in Cornwall and Lincolnshire....
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