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Opie hopes visitors will make connections, perhaps go around and go back to different works. Julian Opie interviewed by ELLE DECO on the occasion of his solo exhibition at Fosun Foundation, Shanghai. "It just jumped out to me as being connected, useful and very alive so I bought it. He paints with simple black lines and most of his characters don’t even have faces. 2015, Julian Opie: Sculptures, Paintings, Films. Julian Opie is one of Britain’s leading contemporary artists and has been making portraits since the 1990s. "If he can do it then I can do it.". Artist Julian Opie believes "public art" should mean more than prosaic local authority-commissioned sculptures of shopping bags outside malls. He takes Stuart Jeffries through it, A new art book with works by Damien Hirst, Julian Opie and Bridget Riley aims to calm and entertain babies. • Julian Opie: Collected works is at the Holburne Museum in Bath, from 21 May until 14 September. There are many wonderful and striking works in Opie's collection, not least a bust of the 18th-century composer Christoph Gluck from the studio of Jean-Antoine Houdin in which you can see the terrible scarring effects of having had smallpox. With public commissions from New York to Seoul, London to Zurich, and an uninterrupted flow of international museum exhibitions, Opie’s distinctive formal language is instantly recognisable and reflects his artistic preoccupation with the idea of representation and the means by which images are perceived and understood. © 2020 Guardian News & Media Limited or its affiliated companies. 2015, Winter: A Q&A with British Council India. They do say great art is ageless ... From glimpses of Concorde to the sea seen through a lighthouse prism – artists such as Wolfgang Tillmans and Tacita Dean describe how they select and crop landscapes, Some of Britain's leading artists have designed Christmas wrapping paper especially for the Guardian. But actually it was a fairly standardised system as to how to do cloth, how to do flesh and so on. Opie has always used the latest technology so it is perhaps no surprise to see works from 2012 where he has explored 3D printing. "The idea of what I'm doing … it makes me nervous." The work of Julian Opie is known throughout the world. Six of Opie's portraits are in the collection of the National Portrait Gallery, London: four portraits of the band members of Blur executed in colour print on paper, one of inventor and engineer Sir James Dyson rendered by inkjet on canvas, and a self-portrait, Julian with t-shirt, executed on an LCD screen with computer software. Julian Opie. 2014. People would have learned it in workshops.". Julian Opie: Sculptures, Paintings, Films. The blue curtains in a portrait of an unknown woman by Cornelius Johnson – a court painter to Charles I before Van Dyck – inspired the blue curtains in a 2008 Opie work, Maria Teresa with sequinned dress. Royal Ballet: The Unknown Soldier / Infra / Symphony in C review – bittersweet beauty, Abstraction in photography and nature in fashion – the week in art, Julian Opie: 'It's only when you are bored that you can see', A Certain Kind of Light review – let there be mirror balls, Julian Opie's portraits in motion: this is what genius looks like – review, Julian Opie: 'The idea of what I'm doing … it makes me nervous', Peter Duggan's Artoons: a picture of Dorian Opie, Framing the view: six artists reveal how they choose landscapes, Julian Opie: my magic-eye Christmas wrapping paper. An exhibition on the theme of light is the latest to draw on the Arts Council’s huge national collection. First published on Tue 20 May 2014 23.49 BST. Yes, they are very different but perhaps they are also similar. I hope it will be read generously, rather than 'that lot's better than that lot', which you could end up suffering from.". Julian Opie speaks to Jut Land Development, commissioners of a new public LED sculpture in Taipei City. Some visitors will be able to spot more direct connections. 2014. NGV Kids presents an interactive exhibition for families, featuring hands-on and digital activities developed in collaboration with the artist. Yet Julian Opie captures our world in stunning detail, Artist's secret passions explored in rich exhibition of his work from the past 20 years and pieces from his private collection. "The sentimentality, self-consciousness and romanticism is like a wall; it blocks me out completely.".

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