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Op Art pioneer Bridget Riley is showcasing a series of her emphatic wall paintings at Galerie Max Hetzler‘s Potsdamer Straße location in Berlin. The show will consist of 13 works in total, more than ...

© Bridget Riley 2025; All rights reserved. Photo: © Oli Cowling/Tate A landmark of Op art, Bridget Riley’s 1964 painting Hesitate has been cleaned for the first ...

Bridget Riley, final study for “Halcyon” [Repaint] (1971), pencil and gouache on paper, 37 3/8 × 36 inches (collection of the artist, © Bridget Riley 2023, all ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. The show in Margate brings together 26 paintings that represent nearly every stage of Riley’s ...

Starting in the early 1960s, British artist Bridget Riley began exploring a style of art based upon simple geometric forms such as squares, lines, and ovals. Known as Op-art, the works created in this ...

Bridget Riley is a British artist known for her singular Op Art paintings. Melding clean lines, color arrangements, and geometric precision she creates optically compelling visual effects, as seen in ...

ALMOST NO ONE does ceiling paintings any longer. “I think it’s because we build towers nowadays,” says Mark Getty, who chaired the board of trustees of the National Gallery in London between 2009 and ...

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Now aged 94, Bridget Riley has been remarkably “consistent” over her long career, but is often misunderstood, said Lily Le Brun in The Observer. Back in the 1960s, her “bold, geometric, abstract” ...