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Julian Opie, like Warhol, was inspired by celebrities and the commercial world. Opie also liked to do portraits of people doing everyday things such as walking or playing a sport. Unlike Warhol, Opie’s work displays only basic facial expression and simple features such as reducing the detail of the eyes to just two black circles and using lines to display other facial expressions such as the mouth. Some of Opie’s work is even simpler and shows only the outline of a figure filled in with basic colours.
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Vincent Van Gogh was also a portrait artist though his influences were totally different to any of Warhol's or Opie's as his work was inspired by French artist Paul Gauguin who took part in post - impressionism. Van Gogh's art was also deeply influenced by his overwhelming illnesses, he suffered from Epilepsy and Bipolar Disorder, Bipolar Disorder having a bigger influence on his work as it causes unusually prolonged periods of depression as well as manic episodes, creativity and hallucinations, which are similar to Bacon's emotional influences.
After looking at the work of these four artists I have gained liking and inspiration from some of their work but i couldn't say for sure which one I like better, as I only like certain aspects of each artists work. With Andy Warhol I like the fact that he started a new revolution for art which later lead onto the work of Julian Opie who was brave enough to strip art to it's basics and still earn his place as an artist. As for Bacon, I like the way he was able to incorporate emotion and deep meanings into his portraits without making it too vague. The aspects of Vincent Van Gogh's work that I find most interesting is that all of his work is carefully planned out with his draw first - paint later theory that proved successful but his work as unfortunately unappreciated during his time as an artist.
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