Julian Opie
Woman taking off man's shirt. 5, 2003
Lithogrpah in colours on paper, framed
100 x 60 cm (framed: 107 x 71.5 cm)
non-editioned multiple
© Julian Opie
Drawing on the visual language of contemporary life, from computer graphics to road signs and billboards, Julian Opie creates landscapes and portraits in an instantly recognisable signature style defined by...
Drawing on the visual language of contemporary life, from computer graphics to road signs and billboards, Julian Opie creates landscapes and portraits in an instantly recognisable signature style defined by a stripped-down vocabulary of schematic lines and blocks of colour. Interested in the ways reality can be represented and reflected, Opie often reduces iconic subject matter, like close-up portraits, landscapes, and the body in motion, to simple geometric forms, typically rendering faces as a series of piercing dots and lines.