{"id":25270,"date":"2019-11-11T09:24:50","date_gmt":"2019-11-11T08:24:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=25270"},"modified":"2019-11-11T09:24:52","modified_gmt":"2019-11-11T08:24:52","slug":"five-things-to-know-about-the-artist-bridget-riley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=25270","title":{"rendered":"Five things to know about the artist Bridget Riley"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>This weekend, I went to the Hayward Gallery on London&#8217;s South Bank to see an excellent exhibition of the British artist Bridget Riley.  The gallery&#8217;s web site has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.southbankcentre.co.uk\/blog\/five-things-know-about-bridget-riley\">a short article<\/a> highlighting five facts about Riley:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Her abstract paintings explore perception and the way in which we see.<\/li><li>Much of her work is inspired by the natural world.<\/li><li>Since the late 1960s, her work has explored colour relationships and the way that colours interact.<\/li><li>Drawing is hugely important to Riley: she calls it &#8220;an exercise in looking&#8221;.<\/li><li>She has been influenced by the work of other artists &#8211; among them the French painter Georges Seurat. <\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This weekend, I went to the Hayward Gallery on London&#8217;s South Bank to see an excellent exhibition of the British artist Bridget Riley. The gallery&#8217;s web site has a short article highlighting five facts about Riley: Her abstract paintings explore perception and the way in which we see. Much of her work is inspired by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25270","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cultural-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25270","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25270"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25270\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25274,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25270\/revisions\/25274"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}