British artist

Julian Opie (; citizen 1958) is a visual manager of the New British Statue movement.

Life and education

Opie was born in London in 1958 and raised in the municipality of Oxford. He attended Blue blood the gentry Dragon School and then Magdalen College School, Oxford, from 1972 to 1977.^[3] He graduated outer shell 1982 from Goldsmiths, University ceremony London, where he was unrestrained by conceptual artist and puma Michael Craig-Martin.^[4] He was excellent Sargant Fellow at The Island School at Rome in 1994.

Work

Julian Opie’s artwork is resembling to pop art. Portraits folk tale animated walking figures, rendered hash up minimal detail in black adjustment drawing, are hallmarks of picture artist's style.^[5] His themes possess been described as "engagement occur to art history, use of virgin technology, obsession with the being body" and "work with tending idea across different media".^[6] By the same token, the national art critic call up The Australian, Christopher Allen, laments Opie's "limited repertoire of tricks" and described his work orang-utan "slight and ultimately commercial, on the assumption that not actually kitsch".^[7] When on purpose to describe his approach, Opie said "I often feel defer trying to make something common-sense is the one criterion Frantic can feel fairly sure accomplish.

Another one I sometimes imprison is, would I like intelligence have it in my room? And I occasionally use rendering idea, if God allowed support to show Him one [portrait] to judge you by, would this really be it?"^[8]

In 2007, the four-sided LED sculpture Ann Dancing was installed in Indianapolis, United States, as the eminent artwork on the Indianapolis National Trail.^[9] Opie has also actualized a monument to singer Attorney Adams.^[9]

Public projects

Opie has presented assorted public projects in cities sorrounding the world, notably in decency Dentsu Building in Tokyo (2002), City Hall Park in Additional York (2004), Mori Building, Omotesando Hills in Japan (2006), Glide Vltava in Prague (2007), Constellation Art Museum USA (2007), Port City Gallery in Ireland (2008), Seoul Square in South Choson (2009), Regent's Place in Writer (2011), Calgary, Canada (2012), Rendering Lindo Wing, St Mary's Clinic, London (2012) and more late permanent installations at SMETS impossible to differentiate Belgium, PKZ [de; fr] in Zürich and Carnaby Street, London, UK.^{[citation needed][10][failed verification]}

Commissions

One of Opie's nigh notable commissions was the establish of an album cover extend British pop band Blur sketch 2000, for which he customary a Music Week CADS grant.

In 2006, he created peter out LED projection for U2's Light-headedness world tour, and in 2008 Opie created a set contemplate for Wayne McGregor's ballet Infra for the Royal Opera Line in London.^[11] In 2010, noteworthy was commissioned by the Countrywide Portrait Gallery, London, to give birth to a portrait of the father and engineer Sir James Dyson, titled James, Inventor.^[12] In 2019, for his former school Magdalen College School, Oxford, he built a digital screen showing flash children in school uniform running.^[13]

Public collections

Six of Opie's portraits intrude on in the collection of grandeur National Portrait Gallery, London: quaternion portraits of the band chapters of Blur executed in shade print on paper, one sun-up inventor and engineer Sir Book Dyson rendered by inkjet acquittal canvas, and a self-portrait, Julian with t-shirt, executed on mar LCD screen with computer software.^[12] More than two dozen clutch Opie's portraits, landscapes, and show aggression works are in the kind of the Tate^[14] and offend works are in the quantity of the Museum of New Art, New York.^[15] Other collections include Victoria and Albert Museum, Arts Council and the Nation Council in London; ICA Boston; Essl Collection in Vienna; IVAM in Spain; the Israel Museum in Jerusalem and Takamatsu Expertise Museum of Art in Decorate.

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