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Bridget Riley [1931-0] British

Rank: 103
Artist

Bridget Louise Riley CH CBE is an English painter who is one of the foremost exponents of Op art. She currently lives and works in London, Cornwall and the Vaucluse in France.

Freedom, Nature

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Focusing isn't just an optical activity, it is also a mental one.		101
For me nature is not landscape, but the dynamism of visual forces.	Nature	102
Painters have always needed a sort of veil upon which they can focus their attention. It's as though the more fully the consciousness is absorbed, the greater the freedom of the spirit behind.	Freedom	103
His failures are as valuable as his successes: by misjudging one thing he conforms something else, even if at the time he does not know what that something else is.		104
I think this lack of a center has something to do with the loss of certainties that Christianity had to offer.		105
I work with nature, although in completely new terms.		106
Painting is, I think, inevitably an archaic activity and one that depends on spiritual values.		107
An artist's early work is inevitably made up of a mixture of tendencies and interests, some of which are compatible and some of which are in conflict.		108
There was a time when meanings were focused and reality could be fixed; when that sort of belief disappeared, things became uncertain and open to interpretation.		109
As a painter today you have to work without that essential platform. But if one does not deceive oneself and accepts this lack of certainty, other things may come into play.		110
As the artist picks his way along, rejecting and accepting as he goes, certain patterns of enquiry emerge.		111
I used to build up to sensation, accumulating tension until it released a perceptual experience.		112
In my earlier paintings, I wanted the space between the picture plane and the spectator to be active.		113

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