Bridget Riley: Optical Illusion Art

• Bridget Riley is a major figure in the Op Art movement. Her pieces take advantage of the way our eyes are capable of perceiving the effects of motion in still images. Many of her most famous pieces are entirely black and white.
• Students completed these pieces during their STEAM time, where art and science are combined. They learned about the meaning of "optical" and a bit about the anatomy of the human eye. We looked at a variety of optical illusions.
• The creation of these pieces required a strong sense of pattern-recognition; while each row is a simple AB pattern, any adjacent row flips the pattern to BA.