Learning from Seurat”, a subliniat influența durabilă a postimpresionistului francez asupra dezvoltării sale artistice, dezvăluind modul în care pointillismul lui Seurat a servit drept o fundație crucială pentru propriile ei explorări ale culorii și percepției. Astăzi, la peste nouăzeci de ani, Bridget Riley continuă să lucreze și să expună la nivel internațional, consolidându-și poziția ca unul
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.
