Julian opie was born in 1958, in london, julian opie is best known for the word he did for the best of blur album cover, julian opies style tends to be bold outlines and flat colours to make up images of faces, the best of blue album cover was the first chance he had to get his style out there and since then he has been known for using that type of style. In 2006 he did work with U2 during there vertigo world tour he displayed his LED display peice of the aimless walking man.
This image above is an image of the LED display of the aimless walking man, as you can see this peice is very simple , simple outlines but u can clearly see that it is a figure of a person just walking, in my personal opinion i do like this peice but i feel it is way to simple, anybody could do it, but i supose its originality that won this peice over.
This is an image of blurs, best of album cover that opie did, as u can see again it is the simple approuch to the human facial form, plain mat colours broken down into simple sections to make a cartoon like aperience, using first and secondry colours, i feel it works really well, and julian held onto this style and made it a very big things, it is very original which i like, but in a way it is a bit to simple for my liking.
I dont think julian opie has a directed certain target audience for his work, i feel it is directed at everyone who can apreciate a good peice of work, its was all about getting his style out there which he managed to do.
Julian opie used many form of madterials to express his work, including the two i have mentioned in this post, LED effects and computer graphics, he also makes sculptures which are simular to his LED display here is an example of one of his sculptures below.
I do like this sculpture it really stands out , i like the plain bright colours and the simplicity, i think it looks better than when its on LED screen or an image, it stands out more makes a biggr statement, i have to admit i have been won over by this peice in term of julians style of simplicity, i do like this peice, i feel it will target younger audiences as it is very modern looking and using first and secondry colours kids would probily enjoy the peice aswell .
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