tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15365158.post112463984729087308..comments2024-01-11T01:56:13.012-08:00Comments on Astromen!: Julian Opie, lowest common denominatorDon J.http://www.blogger.com/profile/05468697789068504474noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15365158.post-1124677715064328602005-08-21T19:28:00.000-07:002005-08-21T19:28:00.000-07:00Oh, the landscapes are totally vector traced then ...Oh, the landscapes are totally vector traced then projected. That doesn't irk me nearly as much as the little anecdotes inserted beside each landscape about his travels to various locales.<BR/>I like the video game references of the bottom two pictures I posted. Particularly the scale shift between the boxy ray-traced car and the buildings, also the idea of putting a horizion on the walls, all around the room, at knee level. But I think the actual pioneering VR he's referencing is a million times cooler than Opie's work.<BR/>I think this guy is a good bellwether for what the art world is looking for. That is, the several thousand people who buy and sell paintings. That the work is fluff doesn't concern them nearly as much as setting themselves apart from the proles out on the street.Petehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04119934661023748815noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15365158.post-1124645469990024232005-08-21T10:31:00.000-07:002005-08-21T10:31:00.000-07:00"It's not IF the art pisses you off, it's HOW it p..."It's not IF the art pisses you off, it's HOW it pisses you off that matters!"<BR/><BR/>That said, just looking at his "people" and "portraits", this is the sort of work that only comes off as NOT totally shit when shown in series. <BR/><BR/>I loath his "portraits," but his "people" are sort of interesting because you can impose any kind of hottie you like on the iconic woman doing a strip tease (as long as she's thin, that is) so the work ends up being personal for the viewer (but then, it's not hard to get a 29 year old guy's attention with sex now, is it?). I also sort of dig the idea of a floating head without a neck which is still, somehow, attached to a body.<BR/><BR/>I'm 90% positive that his landscapes have all been scanned, vectorized, and fed through the mighty opaque projector. How fresh. How appealing. <---- LIES!Mr. Alexhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00578549098299300881noreply@blogger.com