2. Bridget Riley
Task 1:
Watch the following video on the artist and make notes on the artists
life and the type of art she creates.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z1lQCTunGxg
(if video does not work use information from the next slide to
complete task2)
Task 2:
Use those notes to write a paragraph about Bridget Riley in your own
words. Use full sentences and correct vocabulary.
3. Bridget Riley Facts
Bridget Riley is one of the best known exponents of the 1960’s Optical or
Op art movement. Her images produce intense sensations of movement
and colour that engage the viewer in the experience of viewing. Bridget
Riley was born in Norwood, South London in 1931. Her father, John Fisher
Riley, was a printer who relocated the family printing business to
Lincolnshire and the family moved with it. In 1939, when war broke out
Riley’s father was drafted and, along with her sister mother and aunt
(who was a former student at Goldsmiths College), she was evacuated to
Cornwall to escape the dangers of the blitz. The memories of the freedom
and natural environment Cornwall offered had a big impact on Riley’s
visual awareness throughout her life.Drawing and painting became the
centre of Bridget Riley’s life from an early age, after attending school at
Cheltenham Ladies College (1946-49), she studied at Goldsmiths’ College
from 1949 to 1952, and at the Royal College of Art from 1952 to 1955,
where her fellow students included artists Peter Blake, Geoffrey Harcourt
and Frank Auerbach.
4. Task3: When your paragraph is completed you must create a
copy of the following work by Bridget Riley in your book. Fill an
A4 page in your book and you can add your own colour.
