Abstract

MANAIA, João Pedro. Bridget Riley and Op Art: Nature, Perception and Representation. Revista Convergências [online]. 2020, vol.13, n.25, pp.69-81.  Epub May 31, 2020. ISSN 2184-0180.  https://doi.org/10.53681/c1514225187514391s.25.110.

The exhibition - “The Responsive Eye” - in 1965 at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, brought projection and recognition to Op Art and also to Bridget Riley. Bridget Riley's aesthetics is part of a set of experimental practices, developed during the post-war period, from which some non-representational concepts were explored and developed. Her art is focused in transport to the observer's senses, the immaterial forces of a subtle nature; a nature which is commanded by the interaction of light, heat and energy; an Einsteinian nature of wave-particle duality; a nature of invisible forces. This nature is revealed in her works, through pure plastic relations gleaned through a phenomenological approach that isolates and amplifies essential forms and relationships. Her representational art, had three evolutionary stages, which are interrelated: (1) understanding of the nature of human perception, (2) representation of the visual and preceptive experience of nature and (3) third concerns the ways in which Bridget Riley's work reflects the understanding of nature.

Keywords : Op Art; Bridget Riley; Elements of nature; Patterns.

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