2003
261.0 x 236.0 cm
Istražite očaravajuće optičke iluzije Bridget Riley (r. 1931), vodeće figure Op Art-a. Otkrijte njezine dinamične crno-bijele geometrijske slike, istraživanja percepcije i trajni utjecaj na modernu umjetnost.
Riley is often associated with the Op Art movement of the mid-1960s, characterized by simple lines and forms, usually in repetitive patterns, that create illusion of movement. She arrived at Elysium’s optical effect by doing rigorous work in 1973 with exquisite small-scale maquettes to explore the interplay of red, blue, and green alternating with white. Personal circumstances forestalled for three decades her exact translation of these studies into the final large-scale painting, in which vertical stripes in a perfectly calibrated sequence emanate a rolling but controlled vibration of colored light. Elysium is a modern evocation of the paradise invoked by its title, an abstract interpretation of the pastoral.