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£9,000
Specification
- Category | sculpture
- Signed | No
- Year | 2020
- Medium | bronze
- Substrate | n/a
- Edition | Edition of 25
Artist Bio
Julian Opie was born in London in 1958 and raised in Oxford. He graduated in 1983 from Goldsmiths, University of London, where he was taught by conceptual artist and painter Michael Craig-Martin. He emerged as an influential figure in the British art scene of the 1980s after producing a series of painted metal sculptures that humorously combined loosely painted imagery with steel shapes. Portraits and animated walking figures, rendered with minimal detail in black line drawing, are hallmarks of the artist’s style.His themes have been described as "engagement with art history, use of new technology, obsession with the human body"...
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