(A collection of more than three hundred definitive pieces...)
A collection of more than three hundred definitive pieces, many previously unpublished, demonstrates the artist's range and is complemented by text drawn from interviews, essays, and notes that offer insight into his views about art and life. 20,000 first printing.
(On July 5, 2011, the day of Cy Twombly’s death, Julian Sc...)
On July 5, 2011, the day of Cy Twombly’s death, Julian Schnabel (born 1951) painted a series of cruciform works as a tribute to Twombly, who was an important influencer of his early painting and a close friend. La Nil examines these artworks alongside a number of recent paintings and sculptural work.
(Over the span of his 40-year career, Julian Schnabel has ...)
Over the span of his 40-year career, Julian Schnabel has moved effortlessly across mediums, working in film, design and the fine art world. Draw a Family returns our focus to Schnabel's seminal career as a painter, reminding us that this is the field in which he has continuously thrived since the 1970s. This massive, clothbound volume is comprised of paintings made between 1973 and 2013 and includes artwork from nearly every stage in the artist's oeuvre-from his early oil on canvas works to his most recent flag paintings. The nearly 400 color images in Draw a Family look back at the early genius that made Schnabel an international name and show how this New York artist continues to redefine the parameters of painting. Julian Schnabel was born and raised in Brooklyn, New York. His first solo show was at the Contemporary Arts Museum in Houston in 1976, but it was with his 1979 exhibition at the Mary Boone Gallery in New York that Schnabel first asserted his presence as a figurehead for new possibilities in painting. Retrospectives of his work have been mounted by Tate Gallery, London (1983), the Whitney Museum of American Art (1987) and Museo Nacionale Centro de Arte Reina Sophia, Madrid (2004), among many others. He made his cinematic debut in 1996 with his account of the life of Jean-Michel Basquiat, which starred Jeffrey Wright, David Bowie, Gary Oldman and Dennis Hopper. The Diving Bell and the Butterfly earned him Best Director both at the Cannes Film Festival and the Golden Globes, and an Academy Award nomination in the same category.
Julian Schnabel: CVJ: Nicknames of Maitre D's & Other Excerpts from Life, Study Edition
(In 1987, at age 36, Julian Schnabel (born 1951) was not o...)
In 1987, at age 36, Julian Schnabel (born 1951) was not only represented in some of the most important exhibitions of his time; retrospectives of his works were already being celebrated in major museums such as the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, the Tate Gallery in London and the Centre Pompidou in Paris. In 1987 Schnabel also wrote his book, CVJ, giving an account of his life: how he left Texas in 1973 to return to his hometown of New York City, hung out in Max’s Kansas City, met Sigmar Polke, Blinky Palermo, Ross Bleckner and numerous other people in the scene, and traveled to Europe to study the Old Masters―experiences and observations that are both poetic and fun to read. It is also fascinating to see the oeuvre he had produced up to that point: the Plate Paintings with their splintered surfaces, paintings in oil and wax, on velvet and tarpaulin, with "dirt" and cracks and found objects that project into space, as well as drawings and sculptures. Julian Schnabel: CVJ, Study Edition is an accessibly priced, reader-format facsimile edition of the 1987 book, offering a new opportunity to assess Schnabel’s influence on younger generations of artists and on the current debates on painting.
Julian Schnabel is an American painter, sculptor, filmmaker and author, who received international media attention for his "plate paintings"—large-scale paintings set on broken ceramic plates. He is known as an integral member of the American Neo-Expressionists along with Jean-Michel Basquiat and Eric Fischl.
Background
Julian Schnabel was born on October 26, 1951, in Brooklyn, New York, United States, to Esta (née Greenberg) and Jack Schnabel. The youngest child of a successful businessman, he spent his first fifteen years in a middle-class Jewish neighbourhood in Brooklyn. In 1965, he and his family moved to Brownsville, Texas, where his New York upbringing made him feel like an outsider. By the age of three, Schnabel had known he wanted to be an artist, and to cope with his loneliness in Brownsville he turned to painting.
Education
After graduating from high school in 1969, Schnabel attended the University of Houston. While still a student in Houston, he exhibited several of his paintings, which were then representational in style. He graduated from the university with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in 1973. He then also received art training in New York City’s highly selective Whitney Museum of Independent Study program in 1974.
In 1974, Schnabel started working as a cab driver in New York before moving back to Texas for eight months in 1975.
Freed from New York’s financial encumbrances, Schnabel was able to devote more time to painting. He began experimenting with different materials for textural effect, building up canvas surfaces with plaster and gouging and gashing his backgrounds. He put together a body of work, showing many new pieces at his first solo exhibition at the Contemporary Art Museum in Houston. When the show was poorly received by critics and collectors, Schnabel, feeling misunderstood by his Texas audience, returned to New York. There he worked as a cook at the Ocean Club Restaurant in order to save money to travel to Europe. He returned to his art in Paris, Milan, and Tuscany, where he convinced a collector to subsidize a series of paintings before returning to New York in 1977.
In New York, Schnabel again worked as a cook, this time at the Locale Restaurant in Greenwich Village, which became an artist's hangout. On Sunday nights he invited artists, critics, dealers, and collectors to special dinners, often bringing these new contacts to his studio to see his work.
Schnabel’s career took off shortly after Mary Boone, an art dealer, visited his studio. Boone granted the artist his first solo exhibit in 1979. Although collectors had purchased all of Schnabel’s work even before the official opening of the show, critics responded coolly. At the end of 1979, Mary Boone Gallery presented Schnabel’s second one-man show, exhibiting a series of his “plate paintings”—huge canvasses featuring jutting shards of crockery that were inspired by the surreal work of architect Antonio Gaudi, with which Schnabel had come into contact in 1978 during a trip to Barcelona, Spain.
Shortly after the exhibition, Mary Boone approached Leo Castelli, a major New York art dealer, about mounting a joint show of Schnabel’s recent paintings, many of which were too large for Boone’s space. Castelli responded enthusiastically, embracing Schnabel as his first new artist in a decade. Soon Schnabel’s paintings were bought up by many prestigious American and European collectors.
By 1983, Schnabel had exhibited in eleven one-man shows and twenty-seven group shows, including the 74th American Exhibition at the Art Institute in Chicago, the Biennale di Venezia in Venice in 1982, and the Whitney Biennial at the Whitney Museum in 1983. Schnabel left Boone and Castelli in 1984 for the uptown Pace Gallery.
Through the late 1980s and early 1990s, Schnabel continued to exhibit extensively throughout Europe and the U.S. His showings included a 1988 exhibition in Spain, a 1989 show at the Musee d’Art Contemporain in France, and a 1989 to 1990 travelling retrospective. He also took part in the 1993 “American Art in the 20th Century” exhibition presented in London and Berlin.
In 1996 Schnabel co-wrote and directed his first film Basquiat, a movie about a contemporary 1980s art star and friend.
In 2002, Schnabel painted the cover artwork for the Red Hot Chili Peppers' eighth studio album, By The Way.
In 2011 Museo Correr exhibited Julian Schnabel: Permanently Becoming and the Architecture of Seeing, a selected survey show of Schnabel's career curated by Norman Rosenthal.
In May 2017, Schnabel announced that he will direct a film about the painter Vincent Van Gogh during his time in Arles and Auvers-sur-Oise, France. The film is called At Eternity’s Gate and the script was written by Schnabel and French screenwriter Jean-Claude Carrière and will star Willem Dafoe as Van Gogh.
Achievements
Schnabel’s gestural application of paint on massive canvases, use of unconventional materials like broken plates, and representation of human figure are hallmarks of his most famous works, which received a boisterous and critical reception from the art world.
The artist’s works are held in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, New York; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; Guggenheim Museum, New York and Bilbao; Tate Gallery, London; Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid; National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.; National Gallery of Australia, Canberra; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco; Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin; Kunstmuseum, Basel; Fondation Musée d’Art Moderne, Luxembourg; and Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris.
Besides his career as an artist, Schnabel is also known as a film director. His work includes such films as Basquiat (1996), Before Night Falls (2000), The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (2007), Lou Reed's Berlin (2007) and Miral (2010).
Art critic Robert Hughes said: "Schnabel's work is to painting what Stallone's is to acting: a lurching display of oily pectorals."
Connections
During his life, Schnabel was married twice. In 1980, he married Belgian clothing designer Jacqueline Beaurang; they have three children: two daughters, Lola, a painter and filmmaker, Stella, a poet and actress, and a son, Vito, an art dealer. After the marriage ended with a divorce, Schnabel remarried to Basque actress Olatz López Garmendia, with whom he has twin sons, Cy and Olmo.
In 2013, Schnabel dated Danish model May Andersen, with whom he also has one child.
Father:
Jack Schnabel
Mother:
Esta (née Greenberg) Schnabel
First wife:
Jacqueline Beaurang
Second wife:
Olatz López Garmendia
life partner:
May Andersen
References
Julian Schnabel
Julian Schnabel (b. 1951) is regarded throughout the world as one of the most important artists of our time. He burst onto the neo-expressionist art scene of the early 1980s with huge, arresting paintings on collaged shards of smashed plates, but is probably best known today as a successful filmmaker. His works combine oil painting and collage techniques, classical pictorial elements inspired by historical art, and neo-expressionist features. This volume provides a precise account of Julian Schnabel's artistic output over the last thirty years, describing the personality of a metamorphic and unpredictable artist and his bold, somewhat confrontational style reminiscent of the energy and daring of Picasso and Pollock. From the broken-plate paintings that brought him fame, to the recent, massively scaled Big Girls series, the artist's work is set in the context of his overall sensibility, becoming part of an ongoing pictorial diary of a life.
2009
Julian Schnabel: Art and Film
American art megastar Julian Schnabel (born 1951) has made a métier of both painting and film, and while he is equally acclaimed for his achievements in each of these disciplines, the works have often been kept separate in the public eye. Yet Schnabel's painting has drawn on cinematic imagery for years, often connecting otherwise disparate work via this theme, and his award-winning films have drawn on art both formally and as subject matter-most famously in the 1996 hit Basquiat. Schnabel himself resists categorization: "I make art," he says,"whether it is painting, writing, photography or making a movie." This survey of Schnabel's career to date presents the artist's painterly production, from the 1970s through to the present, juxtaposing his large-scale paintings with his numerous critically acclaimed movies-Basquiat (1996), Before Night Falls (2000), The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (2007) and his newest film Miral, which addresses the Palestinian-Israeli conflict. The complete scripts of each of these movies are featured, punctuated with stills chosen by Schnabel. Published for the Art Gallery of Ontario's 2010 survey, Julian Schnabel: Art and Film is the first appraisal of how Schnabel works across media, bridging painting, writing and cinema. Julian Schnabel was born and raised in Brooklyn, New York. His first solo show was at the Contemporary Arts Museum in Houston in 1976, but it was with his 1979 exhibition at the Mary Boone Gallery in New York that Schnabel first asserted his presence as a figurehead for new possibilities in painting. Retrospectives of his work have been mounted by Tate Gallery, London (1983), the Whitney Museum of American Art (1987) and Museo Nacionale Centro de Arte Reina Sophia, Madrid (2004), among many others. He made his cinematic debut in 1996 with his account of the life of Jean-Michel Basquiat, which starred Jeffrey Wright, David Bowie, Gary Oldman and Dennis Hopper. The Diving Bell and the Butterfly earned him Best Director both at the Cannes Film Festival and the Golden Globes, and an Academy Award nomination in this same category.
