Dimensions: support: 2172 x 2172 x 40 mm
Copyright: © Bridget Riley 2014. All rights reserved, courtesy Karsten Schubert, London | CC-BY-NC-ND 4.0 DEED, Photo: Tate
Editor: This is Bridget Riley's "Deny II" at the Tate, a canvas covered in shimmering, grayed-out ovals. It feels like staring into a rainstorm, almost meditative. What do you make of the subtle shifts in tone? Curator: It's a visual poem, isn't it? For me, it's like she’s captured the very essence of light filtering through a grey sky. Do you sense the pulse? Editor: Definitely, there's a real sense of movement. It’s not static at all, even though it’s just dots. Curator: Exactly! It reminds me that even the most restrained palette can evoke a symphony of sensations. Editor: I'll definitely look at gray differently now.
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Bridget Riley manipulates shapes and colours in her paintings to produce disorientating visual effects. Here, she uses contrasting tones, painting oval shapes in a range of cool greys against a warm grey background. Across a grid of 361 equidistant points, Riley shifts from an almost white shade at the centre to a dark blue-black, creating the illusion of a ‘V’ shape rippling over the canvas. In addition to experimenting with colour, Riley uses an oval shape, which she calls ‘a directional circle’, to create a dynamic sense of movement. Gallery label, August 2024
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