Word: riley
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Bridget Riley has had more than her share of misunderstanding. Few painters have been so ruthlessly plagiarized by commerce. As soon as her tightly organized, black-and-white abstractions began to wrench and prick the eyes of an international public in the mid-'60s, a horde of fabric designers and window dressers moved in. Riley, along with other painters like Vasarely and Soto, became synonymous with Op art; and Op itself became, in the hands of its exploiters, a chic gimmick that could market anything from underwear to wallpaper. By the summer of 1965, it seemed that every boutique...
...Painter Riley's development spans a ten-year arc from the aggressiveness of her early black-and-white images to the imperiled quiet of such new stripe paintings as Apprehend, 1970. First reactions to her work may run from puzzlement to nausea. But Riley has always denied she means to hurt the eyes, aiming only for "a stimulating, an active, a vibrating pleasure." But not relaxation -the pleasure is existential, a tuning of the consciousness. In a picture like Cataract III, the eye has no resting place. The viewer scans the inexorably waving lines with something akin to mounting...
...fourth line there are seven competitors, Juniors Red Jancke and Dave Cavanagh, brother of Joe, are being challenged by newcomer junior Skip Barry and sophomores Jay Riley, Harry Reynolds, Steve Harris and Larry Desmond...
...TIME'S article on tobacco spitting [Aug. 17] appears to treat the subject as a novelty outside of Raleigh, Miss. That it is an established art is evidenced by a quotation from our beloved Hoosier poet, James Whitcomb Riley: "Speakin' o' art -I know a feller over t' Terry Haute 'at kin spit clean over...
Others have also profited from the White House invasion. The Alpha Beta Supermarket, part of a chain, on El Camino Real takes in an extra $500 a week when the President is in town. Sometimes the White House orders put the manager, Leon Riley, on the phone to his food broker in Los Angeles, as the time when the chef ordered macadamia nut ice cream (it comes from Hawaii). "They've picked that up here and taken it back East with them," says Riley. And it took Alpha Beta a day and a half to get in Gruyere cheese...