Word: riley
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...master has pupils that he has never even met. One is U.S. Painter Richard Anuszkiewicz (TIME, July 19). Another is Bridget Riley, 32, whose visual torments are on view in London's Whitechapel Art Gallery. Precise black and white herringbone lines constantly wriggle, peak and valley, in an embodiment of vertigo. Visitors have become nauseated and dizzied by Riley's intense, chattering images that force their eyes to jerk to and fro. Not simply geometric tricks, they are larger than sheer optical delusions: orderliness clashes with chaos in the precarious proximity of black and white bands. They also...
Math Book Muse. A slight, trim, brunette bachelor girl, Bridget Riley is now a Jill-of-all-trades in the London office of the advertising empire of J. Walter Thompson. She spent her youth during the blitz in Cornwall and Lincolnshire, which she calls "a fascinating horizontal landscape, terrifically recessional." After three years at the Royal College of Art, she began following her pointillist god Seuiat and the interpenetrating planes of Italian futurism. Now she lives in a bone-white flat with white-painted floors as stark as her work. She designs on graph paper, often resorts to math books...
...visual research is often challenged as phony. Yet in the permutations of pattern that sometimes hurt and sometimes enchant human vision lie the power and the challenge to change reality. As Bridget Riley says, "I wish somebody would give me a big wall to destroy. I mean, to make it no longer seem a wall...
...fourth the Crimson finally broke through. Dockery walked for the second time. Bohaboy, knowing what was up by now, threw five pickoff throws to first, trying to hold the speedy sophomore close to the bag. When he finally threw to the plate, Riley dropped the ball. Dockery zipped down to second and scored on Bobby St. George's single a moment later...
...Riley went out in favor of Joe Gertz as the sixth started. Jim Tobin singled and promptly stole second as Gertz's throw took two bounces to arrive. Dockery got on on a fielder's choice while Tobin went to third; a passed ball scored Tobin and Dockery came in moments later on Luther's sacrifice...