Bridget Riley

8S Cover 10/04/14

Bridget RileyTask 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.

Bridget Riley FactsBridget 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.

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.