Why is the Intervals collection so important?

The Intervals collection resonates with Riley’s iconic stripe prints which the artist started working on in 1971. In these works, Riley experiments with horizontal, vertical and diagonal stripes and explores how colour can be employed to effect perception and evoke certain emotions in the viewer. Riley often produces artworks which are centred on repetitive and formulaic patterns. The simple designs focus the viewer’s attention on the colours employed in the prints, shifting focus from form to colour.

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Intervals by Bridget Riley Background & Meaning

Meaning & Analysis

Printed in an edition of 120, Bridget Riley’s Intervals (2019) is one of her more static compositions, using straight horizontal lines. The prints are signed and come in an edition size of 120. In these prints Riley arranges five bands of horizontal stripes on top of one another, spanning the composition vertically. Riley renders the stripes in cool colours, with purple, blue and green dominating the compositions.

Riley is a renowned English painter whose work is closely associated with the term ‘Op Art’. Short for ‘optical art’, Op Art is a style of visual art that creates optical illusions through careful compositions of shape, light and colour. Op artworks are abstract and tend to produce illusions of movement.

Riley was born in London and studied art at Goldsmiths' College (1949–52), and later at the Royal College of Art (1952–55). As Riley was working as an art teacher, she was able to develop her personal style and experiment with Op Art techniques. The prints in the intervals collection are much simpler than many of Riley’s Op Art pieces and capture the artist’s philosophy that complexity lurks beneath the surface of simplicity, if only we take the time to notice.

The Intervals collection resonates with Riley’s iconic stripe prints which the artist started working on in 1971. In these works, Riley experiments with horizontal, vertical and diagonal stripes and explores how colour can be employed to effect perception and evoke certain emotions in the viewer. Riley often produces artworks which are centred on repetitive and formulaic patterns. The simple designs focus the viewer’s attention on the colours employed in the prints, shifting focus from form to colour.
Riley was very interested in colour and has cited the post-impressionist Georges Seurat who investigated the link between colour and emotion as having had a strong influence on the development of her own visual language and style. While many of Riley’s artworks feature bright and bold colours, the artist rose to fame with her black and white paintings. Riley achieved international acclaim following the exhibition of her black and white Op Art paintings at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. Riley’s works were featured in The Responsive Eye exhibition and art critics, collectors and members of the public were fascinated by the intricate geometric patterns that Riley produced which were arranged in such a way as to give the impressive that the shapes were flashing, vibrating, pulsating and blurring into one another.
Taking her stripe paintings a step further, Riley has also painted impressive murals for art galleries such as the Tate, the Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris and the National Gallery. Between 2017 and 2019 Riley's temporary wall painting commissioned by the Chinati Foundation in Texas was the artist's largest work to date, spanning six of the eight walls of the building. The large murals reflect Riley’s ambition and drive to constantly experiment with and push the limits of what forms her art can take.
If you're looking to sell art by Bridget Riley, click the link and we can help. We employ a number of techniques and practices in order to give a realistic and achievable valuation on any art listed on myartbroker.com. We analyse the demand for the work in question, take into consideration previous sales and auction valuations, we assess the current gallery valuation and monitor the current deals taking place via MyArtBroker every day. We regularly advise sellers on a price bracket for their artwork completely free of charge.