Geometric Wallpaper Designs Biography
In the summer of 1960 Bridget Riley travelled, painted and visited galleries in Italy with de Sausmarez and was enchanted by the black and white Romanesque buildings of Pisa and the churches of Ravenna. She also refers to seeing and admiring the work of the Italian Futurist painters Boccioni and Balla.
She was encouraged by her teacher, Maurice de Sausmarez (d 1970), to study the art of Georges-Pierre Seurat. Bridget Riley’s “Pink Landscape” (shown to the right) completed in 1960 clearly shows the influence Seurat had on her.
On her return, she took a part-time teaching post Hornsey College of Art (1960-61), under the direction of de Sausmarez. The following year Riley moved to Croydon School of Art (1961-64). She also continued to work part time at J. Walter Thompson (a position she also left in 1964).Bridget Riley’s paintings came to International notice when she exhibited along with Victor Vasarely and others in the Museum of Modern Art in New York at an exhibition called “The Responsive Eye” in 1965. It was one of Riley’s paintings that was featured on the cover to the exhibition catalogue.
“The Responsive Eye” was a huge hit with the public but proved to be less popular with the critics, who dismissed the works as trompe l’oeil (literally ‘tricks of the eye’). A short film – ‘The Responsive Eye’ – documenting the opening night of the exhibition was made by Brian de Palma.
Despite the critics, Riley held another wildly popular exhibition at this time in the US, at the Richard Feigen Gallery in New York. Tickets sold out on the first day that they went on sale – a remarkable achievement for an artist who was still in her early thirties.
In the summer of 1960 Bridget Riley travelled, painted and visited galleries in Italy with de Sausmarez and was enchanted by the black and white Romanesque buildings of Pisa and the churches of Ravenna. She also refers to seeing and admiring the work of the Italian Futurist painters Boccioni and Balla.
She was encouraged by her teacher, Maurice de Sausmarez (d 1970), to study the art of Georges-Pierre Seurat. Bridget Riley’s “Pink Landscape” (shown to the right) completed in 1960 clearly shows the influence Seurat had on her.
On her return, she took a part-time teaching post Hornsey College of Art (1960-61), under the direction of de Sausmarez. The following year Riley moved to Croydon School of Art (1961-64). She also continued to work part time at J. Walter Thompson (a position she also left in 1964).Bridget Riley’s paintings came to International notice when she exhibited along with Victor Vasarely and others in the Museum of Modern Art in New York at an exhibition called “The Responsive Eye” in 1965. It was one of Riley’s paintings that was featured on the cover to the exhibition catalogue.
“The Responsive Eye” was a huge hit with the public but proved to be less popular with the critics, who dismissed the works as trompe l’oeil (literally ‘tricks of the eye’). A short film – ‘The Responsive Eye’ – documenting the opening night of the exhibition was made by Brian de Palma.
Despite the critics, Riley held another wildly popular exhibition at this time in the US, at the Richard Feigen Gallery in New York. Tickets sold out on the first day that they went on sale – a remarkable achievement for an artist who was still in her early thirties.
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