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Art | Julian Opie: The Artist Who Loves Drawing Pole Dancers

Julian Opie is one of Britain's most popular artists. He likes to observe things in the simplest possible way and render them as such. In his works, people are often reduced to little more than a few lines and dots. He once asked a pole dancer to draw one hundred different poses; on the page, the dancer became nothing more than a handful of elegant curves.

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Julian Opie is one of Britain's most popular artists. He likes to observe things in the simplest possible way and render them as such. In his works, people are often reduced to little more than a few lines and dots. He once asked a pole dancer to draw one hundred different poses; on the page, the dancer became nothing more than a handful of elegant curves.