Picture "Deer 4" (2020) (Unique piece)
Picture "Deer 4" (2020) (Unique piece)
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unique piece | signed | mixed media | size 97 x 141 cm
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Picture "Deer 4" (2020) (Unique piece)
Aluminium, nylon & light box, 2020, signed on the back. Size: 97 x 141 cm.
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About Julian Opie
The English painter, sculptor and video artist Julian Opie was born in London in 1958 and studied there at Goldsmiths College of Art. He participated in the documenta and the Venice Biennale. Opie's works are shown in numerous museums and collections, including Zurich, New York, London, Osaka and many others.
On the one hand, Julian Opie's unique artistic style is often compared to manga, the Japanese comic books. On the other hand, his style is considered similar to the aesthetics of advertising and posters.
In 1984, the Englishman gained his first international recognition at documenta 8 with his coloured steel objects. He became known to a wider public in 2000 when he designed the album cover for the British pop band Blur. With the help of a computer programme, Opie reduced the facial features of the four musicians to the essentials with black contour lines – a technique he has used for a series of portraits since 1997. "Sometimes when I'm too early for a train or an appointment, I just watch the people passing by and consider what's happening a great random choreography."
A one-of-a-kind or unique piece is a work of art personally created by the artist. It exists only once due to the type of production (oil painting, watercolour, drawing, lost-wax sculpture etc.).
In addition to the classic unique pieces, there are also the so-called "serial unique pieces". They present a series of works with the same colour, motif and technique, manually prepared by the same artist. The serial unique pieces are rooted in "serial art", a genre of modern art that aims to create an aesthetic effect through series, repetitions, and variations of the same objects or themes or a system of constant and variable elements or principles.
The historical starting point is considered to be Claude Monet's "Les Meules" (1890/1891), where, for the first time, a series was created that went beyond a mere group of works. The other artists, who addressed to the serial art, include Claude Monet, Piet Mondrian and above all Gerhard Richter.