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Julian Opie

View of Matsuzaki Bay in the Rain, from Route 136

Description

Maker

Julian Opie (British, b. 1958)

Title

View of Matsuzaki Bay in the Rain, from Route 136

Year

2007

Medium

  • Digital animation with sound,
  • two monitors (diptych)

Materials/Techniques

Techniques

  • Digital animation with sound,
  • two monitors (diptych)

Dimensions

110.5 x 64.4 x 11.7 cm (43 1/2 x 25 3/8 x 4 5/8 inches) (each)

Identification

Edition

3/4

Credit / Object Number

Credit

Richard Brown Baker Fund for Contemporary British Art

Object Number

2009.19.2

Type

  • Time-based Media

Projects & Publications

Publications

Pub_ID 1896 Made in the UK v_01.jpg
  • Books

Made in the UK: Contemporary Art from the Richard Brown Baker Collection

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Exhibition History

Exhibition History

Made in the UK
Contemporary Art from the Richard Brown Baker Collection
Sep 23, 2011 – Jan 08, 2012
Nature/Artifice
Contemporary Works from the Collection
Apr 25, 2009 – Feb 28, 2010

Label copy

This work is part of a series called “Eight Views of Japan,” in which Julian Opie depicts scenes encountered on a road trip through that country. Based on the classic Japanese woodblock prints One Hundred Famous Views of Edo by the 19th-century master Utagawa Hiroshige, the series diverges from Opie’s well-known figurative works in subject. Both his figures and landscapes, however, feature bold contours, clear shapes, and flat areas of color. Like Hiroshige, who rendered views of roads and scenic locations during his own travels, Opie here represents a highway and a mountain vista. He digitally manipulated these photographs, animating them with sound and movement. Such software interventions suggest that Opie is not as interested in nature as much as perception and artistic representation, today and in the past.

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Julian Opie (British, b. 1958)
View of Matsuzaki Bay in the Rain, from Route 136, 2007
Digital animation with sound; two monitors (diptych)
110.5 x 64.4 x 11.7 cm (43 1/2 x 25 3/8 x 4 5/8 inches) (each)
Richard Brown Baker Fund for Contemporary British Art 2009.19.2

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