What If? Metropolis: OGR - 5th November 2014

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Daniel Reason

5th November 2014

What If? Metropolis

Bridget Riley



Bridget Riley

Bridget Riley was born on 24th April 1931 and is an English

painter, who is well known for her Op-Art work.

Her influences include the likes of Georges Seurat, Victor

Vasarely and Giacomo Balla. Each of these artists inspired different styles and features

of her work.

Riley’s work borders on being considered as optical

illusions as they can give the impression of movement or

obscurity, within a still piece.

She doesn’t use detail, but in some of examples of her

work, like “Fall” she uses hundreds of straight lines to add

tone and depth.

I really like her work because, although considering that

her work in most cases is just a series of lines, it would be

incredibly difficult to perfect, and she manages to create

such crazy effects and images

Her work gets you to really look closely at her work and

this makes you appreciate her level of devotion as they

must take an incredibly long time to complete.



Influence Map

This influence map shows some of Bridget Riley’s work. I really like op-

art as it borders on being considered as illusions as some of the

images look like they’re moving, especially if you look at them for a

while. I could look at similar artist, maybe M.C. Escher because

although he didn’t do op-art he did create some interest forms of

architecture, that can be useful, and so I can get inspiration from his

work to do the same for Bridget Riley’s work.



Travelogue

The city grabs your eye and twists it until it cannot bear to understand. The impossiblesetting is a sight none will sharply forget. It’s labyrinth of streets will lose the most

organised of characters. The twist and turns of the simplest of alleys will take you

somewhere untraveled. The city does not work too well with reason as it’s absurd

architecture stands proud, towering over the lake. It’s intricate level of detail is

indescribable as no exact set of words can evaluate what is happening. The city’s wavy

skyscrapers and markets create the impression of being in a magical world. The city hides

among a layer of fog and so cannot be seen by the approaching sailors. The lake is littered

with debris, but they themselves manage to blend within the waves, it is a sight to

behold.

The city is surrounded by an 8 eight foot high metal fence. It’s bar look near to fulltransparency from a distance, but once the city has been fully approached, it is clear that

the city is imprisoned by itself. This creates the illusion, in the mind, of oncoming

travellers that the city can be easily accessed, but as soon as you get close enough it grabs

your attention and draws you in, and that is how you become a resident of this dark

enigma of a city.

Upon reaching the entrance of this magnificent city, you begin to feel dizzy. The city is

moving. You cannot begin to understand. Trying to put an explanation into what your

eyes are gazing towards will lose you in a moment of near to insanity. We dare not

question the city as the city evolves according to the seasons. During spring, the darkness

of winter begins to fade and the buildings resume their ongoing growth towards the sky.

The summer grabs the colour of the waves and splashes it onto the buildings ferociously.

In the month of November, the extended summer concludes and welcomes the red

breeze of autumn. The red, the yellows and the oranges all run at you screaming and so

there is no way to escape this month long season. The robotic residents of the city adore

the winter months. It is within this period where the city loses some of it’s colourful

charm and replaces it with the white of snow. It covers every little piece of the city. The

snow does not want you to begin to understand the city, it wants you to feel the cold

wind hitting the back of your neck while you squint into the foggy distance. The winter

months’ aim, therefore, is to make you want to escape it’ series of mazes.

There are no children in this city. People do not get raised in this city. People do not get

married in this city. The people wake up, go to work and come home. It ’s an 8am to 6pm

routine 7 days a week. There is no moment to relax. The city need to run perfectly in

order to maintain it’s mystery as without the mystery will begin to fade.

In the distance, you may just manage to make out the lighthouse, which stands alone

amongst the rocks. The red and white building can be seen best at night. It’s

extraordinary beam of light flies through your window and whacks you on the face, like a

slap from the wind. It is at this moment where you feel warmth growing inside you and

the pleasure of belonging to this magnificent city runs through your veins.



Thumbnails

These are my first 37 thumbnails for this project. Obviously, I haven’t

done as many as I would have liked at this stage, so I am quite far

behind in comparison to other students. I think there has a been a

slight lack of focus, admittedly, but I also think that the reason for why

it has taken me a while to start making them and why there aren’t

that many is because I am struggling to come up with ideas. Bridget

Riley’s work is quite confusing on the eye and I want my city to show

that. Her work doesn’t include any shapes that can be used to create

silhouettes or new shapes. Also with the first 13 thumbnails, which I

think are better than the ones that follow, I think they look good in 2D

but they would be incredibly hard to make in Maya. Number 12, for

example, is my favourite but I have absolutely no idea how that would

look on Maya. Over the coming days, I will put a lot more work in as I

am not happy with how few and, quite frankly, how poor my

thumbnails are.

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