Courtauld Gallery,London
Britain’s most revolutionary painter joins the dots between Georges Seurat’s pointillist paintings and her own utopian explosions of joy in an exhibition of pure geniusLooking from Bridget Riley’s mind-boggling 1960s paintings to Georges Seurat’s aloof river scene in The Bridge at Courbevoie, painted in 1886-7, and is not only thought-provoking but puts your eyes to the test. After looking at her pounding psychedelic art,I could barely see the Seurat. I had to let my eyes readjust before I could properly invent out its misfits and fishermen on the banks of the Seine, let alone appreciate the play of tiny dots that creates its pointillist shimmer.
Riley is the most revolutionary British painter of contemporary times. Her paintings don’t merely hang on the wall: they warp and pulsate, or sucking your imagination into unreal worlds of impossible depth and hallucinatory colour. What was she on when she came up with her dangerous vision?Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com