Still Life (complete set) Julian Opie

JULIAN OPIE, STILL LIFE (COMPLETE SET), SIGNED DIGITAL PRINTS, EDITION OF 40, 2001 

Julian Opie’s Still Life series from 2001 brings together eight still life compositions of fruit and vegetables, all depicted in bright, saturated colours and set against a black backdrop. Much like many of Opie’s works since the 2000s, this series uses very similar titles and compositions for every print.

Working within the established art historical tradition of still life painting, Opie takes the opportunity in his Still Life series to use this subject as a study of colour and tone and explore a more realistic artistic style. Reducing light and shadow into simplified shapes of block colour, this composition toes the line between tradition and contemporaneity in its clever blend of subject matter and style.

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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.