Artists' Artists: Bridget Riley Featured crate
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Artist Bridget Riley discusses works of art from the national collection that inspire, move or intrigue her.
Bridget Riley is a British artist who was born in 1931 and lives in London, UK. The National Gallery has 15 works of art by Riley in its collection, including the new acquisition Dancing to the music of time 2022.
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Bridget Riley on Jackson Pollock:
'On one of my first visits to New York in the early 1960s, Barnett Newman took me to see Jackson Pollock’s Blue poles at collector …
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Bridget Riley on her own work:
'There were no direct flights in the early days of my visits to Australia, so I often stopped off at interesting places, such as Jakarta. …
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Bridget Riley on Howard Taylor:
'I didn’t know about Howard Taylor until I was delayed in Perth for three weeks by an airline strike in the late 1970s. The British …
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Bridget Riley on Georges Seurat:
'I have always loved Le Bec du Hoc, Grandcamp; it reminds me of walking on the cliffs in Cornwall. There, one encounters many sights of …
