Watching Suzanne (front) 3
Watching Suzanne (front) 3
Signed Mixed Media
Julian Opie
83 x 57cm, Edition of 25, Mixed Media, 2006
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Meaning & Analysis
Watching Suzanne (front) 3 is part of a series of prints by Julian Opie called Watching Suzanne from 2006. The print features a dramatically cropped image of a woman’s torso and thighs as viewed from the front, wearing only her underwear. The image is depicted exclusively in black and white and very thick lines.
Considered alongside the series as a whole, this print shows the model in a pose as though her body is turning towards the viewer. As with much of Opie’s work, this print exudes a sense of movement and motion through the static image, capturing the idea of time itself. The intense cropping of the image also alludes to this notion of a snapshot in time, as opposed to providing the viewer with the entire storyline.
Speaking of the development of his graphic style Opie has said, “The first drawings were very simple, but that gave me a language on which to build. They started as black and white, with very pared-down parameters – the mouth was just a straight line and so on – and bit by bit I adjusted it until it seemed like the right balance between someone real and this generic form.”
