It’s hard to think of an artist whose work is more visually pleasing than that of British artist Bridget Riley. The Op Art painter is known for her eye-catching canvases featuring geometric patterns, ...

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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 ...

A group of London School masterpieces from the collection of Joe Lewis generated £35.8 million, led by strong results for works by Francis Bacon and Lucian Freud. London-based advisor, Dr. Jacqueline ...

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 ...

Tate Britain’s conservation team used sustainable hydrogels, developed by international research programme Greenart, eliminating the need for pressure that could have damaged the surface of the Op art ...

A London hospital recently got a candy-colored makeover from Bridget Riley, the English painter at the forefront of the Op art movement. A colorful abstract mural–Riley’s first in 27 years–brightens ...

On one hand Blaze 4 is a simple design concept: a series of concentric circles, lines angled in alternating directions. The kind of thing that, in the hands of someone less attuned to detail, would be ...

A London hospital recently got a candy-colored makeover from Bridget Riley, the English painter at the forefront of the Op art movement. A colorful abstract mural–Riley’s first in 27 years–brightens ...

The image, "Ra 2", is a series of narrow vertical stripes in six different colors, applied flat and even, forming a large rectangle printed on a heavy weight white wove paper support. Bridget Riley is ...