JULIAN OPIE, LUC AND LUDIVINE GET MARRIED (PAIR 05), LUC AND LUDIVINE GET MARRIED, SIGNED MIXED MEDIA PRINT, EDITION OF 10, 2007
Luc And Ludivine Get Married (pair 05) is a mixed media piece from Julian Opie’s Luc And Ludivine Get Married (2007) that shows two portraits of a man and woman, each with elliptical frames and blown domed glazing. The images are produced from cut black and white paper laminated together and resemble Victorian silhouette portraits.
Luc And Ludivine Get Married (pair 05) is representative of Opie’s fascination with the human body and the genre of portraiture. The series as a whole explores various combinations of poses between the two figures, repeating the subject multiple times but each work has a unique composition. In this work, Opie shows the figures facing inwards towards one another, creating one of the more traditional compositions of the entire series.
Typical of many of Opie’s portraits, Luc And Ludivine Married (pair 05) is rendered with the absolute minimum by which a person can be represented. Reduced to black and white bold lines, the images show the figures with dots for eyes and simple lines for their mouth. Opie is interested in depicting people as a means to represent the mundanities of modern life and explore what it is to be human.
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ABOUT JULIAN OPIE
British artist Julian Opie challenges traditional approaches to portraiture through his digitally designed and seemingly contradictory, depersonalised works. Working also with landscapes and cityscapes, Opie’s highly stylised work involves the reduction of photographs or short films into figurative reproductions created using computer software. The hallmarks of his artistic style are portraits and animated walking figures, rendered with minimal detail in black line drawing. Learn more about Julian Opie.
