Julian Opie is an English sculptor, painter, printmaker and installation artist that was born in London in the year 1958 and was raised in Oxford and he belongs to the New British Sculpture movement, he is one of the UK's best-known contemporary artists. He graduated from Goldsmiths, University of London in 1983
The new British sculpture movement started in the United Kingdom and is a term that is applied to a group of young sculptors that first started emerging at exhibitions at the start of the 1980s the sculptures created by was mostly show at the Institute Of Contemporary Arts and the Arnolfini Gallery, Bristol
It was the series sculptures he created in the 1980s that was based on art and architecture that helped make Julian Opie become a influential …show more content…
Another thing that can be said to have influenced him would be his teacher at Goldsmiths, University of London in 1983 Michael Craig-Martin is a contemporary conceptual artist and painter.
Julian Opie’s style that we can see in his portraits for example is a very simplistic thick black lines to outline the face and clothing of the subject, the eyes and nostrils are simply black dots where they would normally be and yet the portrait is recognizable as the person it is portraying, another thing about his style is the flat colour that is used in his portraits
Due to Julian Opie’s distractive graphic style becoming recognized by people from around the world, it is now being used in many different forms that have ranged from billboards in New York to LED screens and more.
The work that Julian Opie has created over the years has been exhibited both nationally and internationally in both solo exhibitions where only his work is featured as well as in group
The new British sculpture movement started in the United Kingdom and is a term that is applied to a group of young sculptors that first started emerging at exhibitions at the start of the 1980s the sculptures created by was mostly show at the Institute Of Contemporary Arts and the Arnolfini Gallery, Bristol
It was the series sculptures he created in the 1980s that was based on art and architecture that helped make Julian Opie become a influential …show more content…
Another thing that can be said to have influenced him would be his teacher at Goldsmiths, University of London in 1983 Michael Craig-Martin is a contemporary conceptual artist and painter.
Julian Opie’s style that we can see in his portraits for example is a very simplistic thick black lines to outline the face and clothing of the subject, the eyes and nostrils are simply black dots where they would normally be and yet the portrait is recognizable as the person it is portraying, another thing about his style is the flat colour that is used in his portraits
Due to Julian Opie’s distractive graphic style becoming recognized by people from around the world, it is now being used in many different forms that have ranged from billboards in New York to LED screens and more.
The work that Julian Opie has created over the years has been exhibited both nationally and internationally in both solo exhibitions where only his work is featured as well as in group