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Bridget Riley: Learning from Seurat, Courtauld Gallery

17 Sep 15 – 17 Jan 16, 10:00 AM – 6:00 PM

Bridget Riley test the limits of her Op art style with a new show at the Courtauld Gallery inspired by George Seurat's spotty Post Impressionism

By CW Contributor on 16/9/2015

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Bridget Riley artist, Copy after Seurat's Bridge at Courbevoie, Private Collection, 1959, Courtauld Gallery London
Bridget Riley artist, Copy after Seurat's Bridge at Courbevoie, Private Collection, 1959, Courtauld Gallery London
Bridget Riley: Learning from Seurat, Courtauld Gallery Bridget Riley: Learning from Seurat, Courtauld Gallery Ali Godwin
In 1959, the daredevil British artist Bridget Riley made a copy of George Seurat’s Bridge of Courbevoie, marked with his famous pointillist dots of complementary colours. This technique produced muted images of statue-like people, often poised along the banks of rivers and lakes of industrialising nineteenth-century France, that we now associate so closely with modernity and the Post Impressionist style.

Bridget Rile art & Post Impressionism

Riley’s love of Seurat's spotty paintings forms the basis of this special display at the Courtauld Gallery where Seurat’s minute dashes are transformed into large, abstract lines or blocks of colour to make her trademark geometric style of flat canvasses marked by squares, stripes and rhombuses of black, white or pastel colours. These are often arranged into dizzying optical illusions, like in her famous Movement in Squares (1961). A chequerboard of black and white squares slide across the canvas into an infinitely vanishing line.


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Riley was born in 1931 in London and is considered a venerable and much-loved doyenne of the British art world. She is often cited as the most prominent artist to have worked with Op art – a movement that used optical illusions of shifting, shimmering abstractions which had its heyday in the mid-twentieth century.

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Going back to Riley’s beginnings, the Courtauld have assembled Seurat’s masterpiece and six early works by Riley. It reveals the origins of Riley’s distinctive style, developed through Seurat, that examines the human way of seeing.

Small, serious, scholarly shows like these are why we love the Courtauld Gallery, and what it is unrivalled for. Expect some serious art history, but also to have your eyes widened.


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What Bridget Riley: Learning from Seurat, Courtauld Gallery
Where Courtauld Gallery, Strand, London, WC2R 0RN | MAP
Nearest tube Charing Cross (underground)
When 17 Sep 15 – 17 Jan 16, 10:00 AM – 6:00 PM
Price £7 adults; £6 concessions (60+, disabilities etc.); Free for children under 18, students, or those with a National Art Pass
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