Julian Opie

Julian Opie is an installation artist. He attended the Goldsmith’s school of art in London.
Julian Opie creates some portrait work. In this work the faces tend to be minimalistic he uses bold black lines and block colours to fill in he lines.

This is an example of Julian Opie’s portrait work. He designed minimalistic, simple outline images of the band members in Blur. He used bright colours for the background of each of he images. I think the backgrounds help to add personality to the images of each of the musicians. He used different colours to add texture to the hair of the subjects, this contrasts he res of the images where just block colour has been used.

This is a piece Opie created inspired by ballet dancers. He was representing a two dancers frozen during their routine.
I love how he’s simplified the bodies of the two dancers, turning them into basic bold outlined figures. Although he’s removed all the detail from the two figures, he’s kept the graceful elegance of the movements performed by the dancers. He has kept the detail of the ballet shoes on the dancers, although he’s removed things like the hair and faces of the figures.
I like the light, pastel colours he’s used to colour in the figures, it adds to the serene nature of the dancers movements.