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Julian Opie — Christine Swimming
Julian Opie

Christine Swimming

Christine Swimming depicts a simplified, flat figure moving through water rendered in Julian Opie's signature reductive style, stripping the human form down to its most essential lines and shapes. The silkscreen on painted board employs bold outlines and minimal detail, evoking movement and rhythm through clean, graphic abstraction. Opie's characteristic elimination of facial features and use of flat color creates an anonymous yet universally recognizable representation of the swimming figure.

Medium
silkscreen on painted board

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April 13, 2016

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Julian Opie, Christine Swimming

Christine Swimming depicts a simplified, flat figure moving through water rendered in Julian Opie's signature reductive style, stripping the human form down to its most essential lines and shapes. The silkscreen on painted board employs bold outlines and minimal detail, evoking movement and rhythm through clean, graphic abstraction. Opie's characteristic elimination of facial features and use of flat color creates an anonymous yet universally recognizable representation of the swimming figure.

Medium
silkscreen on painted board
Seen at
Phillips, New York, London, Hong Kong

Related themes

Geometric, Blue, Swimming, Figure, Minimalist, Silkscreen, Movement, Human Form, British, Contemporary

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