Bridget Riley (b. 1931) is a British painter best known as a leading figure of Op Art (Optical Art) — a movement that uses precise patterns, lines, and colors to create the illusion of movement, light, and vibration on a flat surface. In the early 1960s, Riley gained international fame with her black-and-white geometric paintings, such as Current(1964), which seem to pulsate and shift before the viewer’s eyes. Later in her career, she began using vivid color, exploring how carefully arranged hu