nerdy obsession

Art Bridget Riley, whose retrospective is currently playing at The Walker in Liverpool, talks about her inspiration:

"For the last 50 years, it has been my belief that as a modern artist you should make a contribution to the art of your time, if only a small one. When I was young, the situation was very different. Abstract painting hung like a mirage in the desert. The door had been pushed open by a small number of visionary artists – mainly Mondrian, Kandinsky, Malevich, Rodchenko. Although travelling by different routes, each had arrived at what was virtually a common core. Having discarded the figure and nature, what remained? Colour as colour itself, those simple shapes and forms that geometry and writing provided, and the material facts."

I continue to be impressed by the nerdy obsession of Riley (of course) even if I'm ultimately disappointed with the resulting paintings.