Red Yellow Black White (from Standing People)

Julian Opie is a British artist internationally known for his bright, simplistic and stylized expression of human figures, animals and landscape. In his distinctive style, He depicts everyday experiences from contemporary life and reduces his surroundings to schematic blocks of colors in constant motion. ‘Standing People’ is a series of six lenticular acrylic panels on white acrylic mounts that depicts one of Opie’s signature subjects - standing and walking people - in his minimal and graphic aesthetic. Opie uses the 21st century method of lenticular printing, which produces the printed images with an illusion of depth, or the ability to change or move as the image is viewed from different angles. The four standing people, each in their own color, move with the viewer as if waiting on the bustling streets of a city. ‘Standing People’ is a reflection of our own everyday, and captures the artist’s skill in distilling the commonplace experience of life into concise works which still blaze with profundity and emotion.