Bridget Riley is an English painter who is one of the foremost proponents of Op Art (visual art that uses optical illusions). Her art creates many intriguing illusions that are designed to disorientate the eye of the viewer. Shadowplay shows her illusory style coming to play with the use of colour.
Shadow Play
1990, Oil Painting
Here, a series of trapezium shapes are combined together to create this repeated pattern. This tessellation pattern creates strips of contrasting colours which confuse the viewer's brain about how bright the individual colours are. I love her combination of geometric shapes and bright colours, and the repition of those shapes and colours. Fête (1989) shows more movement of those repeated shapes and colours across the flat surface.
Fête
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