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Bridget Riley b1931
Third Ear
25 January 1988  Radio 3
Bridget Riley talks to Julian Spalding about

   Audiothe influence of the North Cornish coast, why she became a painter, why she turned to abstraction  3 min 29
   Audiolearning from Seurat, finding the basis of colour  3 min 21
   Audiothe stripe, rhythm, pace and orchestration  2 min 24
   Audiopictorial space, the renaissance painters, Mondrian and Francis Bacon  7 min 3
   Audiodoing life drawing again and the difference between figurative and abstract art  3 min 46

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Bridget Riley
English painter
For nearly 40 years Bridget Riley has maintained a rigorously abstract output, from her 1960s black-and-white optical pattern paintings to her complex colour works of the 1990s.
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