Screenprint on paper
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Rose and Chris Prater
Looking Glass Suite
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<a href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/peter-sedgley-1919" aria-label="More by Peter Sedgley" data-gtm-name="header_link_artist" data-gtm-destination="page--artist">Peter Sedgley</a>
Looking Glass 1
Presented by Rose and Chris Prater through the Institute of Contemporary Prints 1975
abstraction
colour
geometric
non-representational
<p>Peter Sedgley has been described as 'one of the most single-minded of artists'. After abandoning his career as an architect, he devoted himself to the exploration of colour relationships. Like other members of the emerging Op art movement of the 1960s, Sedgley was fascinated by optical sensations produced by intricate geometric patterns and pulsating colour contrasts. In 1964 he began to concentrate on concentric rings of colour. He describes the circle as 'anonymous' because it is a familiar and homogeneous shape. In the Looking Glass Series, Sedgley plays with the ambiguous relationships of figure and ground, creating a dizzying visual experience through the optical illusion of movement.</p><p><em>Gallery label, August 2004</em></p>
paper print screenprint
Looking Glass No. 1
image: 494 × 495 mm
frame: 703 × 703 × 30 mm
Presented by <a href="/search?gid=999999979" data-gtm-name="tombstone_link_bequest" data-gtm-destination="list-page--search-results">Rose and Chris Prater</a> through the Institute of Contemporary Prints 1975
<p>Peter Sedgley has been described as 'one of the  most single-minded of artists'. After abandoning  his career as an architect, he devoted himself to  the exploration of colour relationships. Like  other members of the emerging <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/o/op-art" title="Glossary definition for 'Op art'"><span>Op art</span></a> movement of  the 1960s, Sedgley was fascinated by optical  sensations produced by intricate geometric  patterns and pulsating colour contrasts. In 1964  he began to concentrate on concentric rings of  colour. He describes the circle as 'anonymous'  because it is a familiar and homogeneous shape.  In the Looking Glass Series, Sedgley plays with  the ambiguous relationships of figure and ground,  creating a dizzying visual experience through  the optical illusion of movement.</p>
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abstraction colour geometric non-representational