Julian Schnabel Plate Paintings
At the same time schnabel also became an accomplished film director.
Julian schnabel plate paintings. Fairy princess with a broken wing in the chocolate grotto oil plates bondo on wood 96 x 84 2012. Julian schnabel plate paintings 1978 86. The student of prague 1983 the student of prague is one of schnabel s famous plate paintings in which he applied heavy layers of pigment over broken plates and horns that were glued to a wood panel. The work is exemplary schnabel s oeuvre of the 1980s in its massive scale and almost baroque ornamentation.
Julian schnabel is a painter and filmmaker known as an integral member of the american neo expressionists along with jean michel basquiat and eric fischl. King of the wood 1984 oil plates bondo on wood with spruce roots 162 x 108 1984. Before the night falls 2000 won the grand jury prize at the venice film festival and the diving bell and the butterfly 2006 was nominated for four academy awards. Website of artist and director julian schnabel.
Website of artist and director julian schnabel. Julian schnabel is one of the key figures of the american neo expressionism who became known for his large scale paintings that incorporated unusual materials like wax velvet and broken ceramic plates. Painting without mercy 1980 oil plates and bondo on wood 120 x 168 1980. Largely unexhibited since the early 1980s schnabel s pieces reveal the artist s interest in material experimentation the physicality of surface and the relationship between the figure and abstraction.