RA 2 - Bridget Riley 1981
The Egyptian Connection – 1981
In 1981 she visited Egypt and was enchanted by the colours used by ancient Egyptian art. ‘The colours are purer and more brilliant than any I had used before,’ she wrote.
In the ‘life-giving arrangement of colours’ the Egyptians had used for over 3000 years Riley had found a group of colours which worked perfectly as a colour scheme. They retained their individual brilliance and still generated new colours and light effects in the spaces between the colour groups. With these colours she felt she had found the intensity of colour and the shimmer of light she had always searched for.
Prior to this point the use of colour in Riley’s work was ordered and its progression could be followed across the canvas. The ‘Egyptian’ paintings mark the beginnings of free colour organisation, something that she uses to the current day.
Source: http://www.op-art.co.uk/bridget-riley/
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