Julian Opie (born 1959) is a contemporary Welsh artist, who uses computerised imagery. He is a former trustee of the Tate Gallery.
Julian Opie was born in Cardiff and raised in Newport. After the Dragon School, Oxford, he spent some time at Magdalen College School, in Oxford.
His work, derived in part from Patrick Caulfield and Michael Craig-Martin, involves the reduction of photographs (or short films) into figurative reproductions (created usin...
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Julian Opie (born 1959) is a contemporary Welsh artist, who uses computerised imagery. He is a former trustee of the Tate Gallery.
Julian Opie was born in Cardiff and raised in Newport. After the Dragon School, Oxford, he spent some time at Magdalen College School, in Oxford.
His work, derived in part from Patrick Caulfield and Michael Craig-Martin, involves the reduction of photographs (or short films) into figurative reproductions (created using computer software). In his portraiture, the human face is characterised by black outlines with flat areas of colour, and minimalised detail, to the extent that an eye can become just the black circle of the pupil, and sometimes a head is represented by a circle with a space where the neck would be. Opie uses computers in art for other works. His Imagine you are... series, demonstrated how activities such as driving, walking and climbing could be represented by simple reductions. In addition, Opie uses sculpture and light installations to...
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