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Larger Image	Larger image may be viewed by UofL faculty, staff, and students only (log-in required using ULink username/password) at: http://echo.louisville.edu/login?url=http://vrc-web.louisville.edu/Jpegs/820/826-24.jpg
Title	Blaze, detail.
Alternative Title	Blaze I, detail.
Creator	Riley, Bridget (English painter and printmaker, born 1931)
Date	1962
Cultural Context	English British European
Style/Period	Op art
Theme	Paintings (visual works) Optical illusion Illusion Illusionism Abstraction Detail views
Subject	Paintings Abstract paintings Abstract works Optical illusions Hallucinations & illusions Details
Description	"Riley's 'Op' paintings of the early 1960s were exclusively in black and white although, as her critical mentor the psychologist Anton Ehrenzweig noted, they could generate disembodied sensations of color. She was to begin incorporating color into her work from 1966 onwards, exploiting dazzling chromatic contrasts. (Caption, p.147); "Riley […] carved out a profoundly distinctive path with her assertive, optically disorienting paintings. […] Although her work had superficial parallels with the formulaic illusion-inducing paintings of the Hungarian Victor Vasarely, the basis of Riley's work in naturalistic starting starting-points (such as the effects of wind in long grass) or in physical sensations provided her work with greater metaphorical range. The invasive energy of certain images quickly led to threatened male critics complaining of unfeminine 'aggression'." (Excerpt, p.146)
Material	Emulsion on board Emulsion Emulsion paint Paint Boards (flat objects)
Measurements	109 x 109 cm
Technique	Painting (image-making)
Work Type	Paintings Abstract paintings Abstract works
Repository	Private collection
Source	Hopkins, David. After Modern Art: 1945-2000. Oxford History of Art. Oxford; New York: Oxford UP, 2000. (p.[130], detail of fig.73)
Rights	© Bridget Riley, all rights reserved. Photo reproduced in Hopkins courtesy of Karsten Schubert, London.
Digital Publisher	University of Louisville Department of Fine Arts/Allen R. Hite Art Institute Visual Resources Center
Format	image/jpeg
Digital File Name	VRC 826-24.jpg
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