I dreamt I was driving my car (motorway corner)
2002
From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
2002
From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
I dreamt I was driving my car (motorway corner) is a 2002 by Julian Opie, depicting Road, held at Victoria and Albert Museum.
Julian Opie made this print in 2002. It shows a road corner. Simple at first glance, yet it’s a print, not a painting. Opie draws on computers over his own photos. He balances realism with a flat, clean look. This style grew from a 1993 road trip across Europe. Want to see more like this? Look up the artist Julian Opie.
Julian Opie’s 2002 print *I dreamt I was driving my car (motorway corner)* derives from photographs he took during a 1993 road trip across Europe, digitally refined to merge realism with a stylized, almost diagrammatic clarity. The narrow, oblong composition mimics the framing of a car windscreen or a cinema screen, evoking the narrative conventions of road movies and their themes of movement and transformation. By distilling the scene into bold outlines and flat color fields, the work synthesizes visual cues from advertising, animation, and illustration while maintaining a direct connection…
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Julian Opie is a visual artist of the New British Sculpture movement.
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