Julian Schnabel
by Julian Schnabel
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Author: Julian SchnabelEdition: Hardcover
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2003-11-04
ISBN: 0810946335
Number of pages: 368
Publisher: Harry N. Abrams
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Book Review: A good introduction to Schnabel's work
Summary: 4 Stars
If you can find it, get a copy of "CVJ: Nicknames of Maitre D's and Other Excerpts from Life" instead. That book has many of the same works featured, along with much more of the artist's text, -which is funny, insightful, self-deprecating and honest.
This book will give the reader an idea of Schnabel's oeuvre, but does little to put it into context. There are dozens of his portrait paintings, most utilizing his signature plate style, which show an arresting sensitivity for his subjects along with a noted concern for formal aspects of painting. For those who dismiss Schnabel, I would say look again, and this time try to see. For those who worship him as the greatest living American painter, I would say this is grossly overstated and they need to get out and see more painting.
Art speaks of its time, and in this way Schnabel's work performs vivisection on America in the 1980's. Much of where we are now; politically, economically, socially and so forth, began in that decade.
As a painter, I love Schnabel's surfaces, even when I don't love (or even like) the paintings themselves. To be sure, his work is not for the uninitiated. It takes a developed palette to process much of it, and quite frankly most people who look at art have no idea what they are looking at to begin with. Just as opera may be difficult at first, so too abstract painting in general frightens and enrages many who seek comfort and reassurance from art, and who want it to come to them instead of approaching it themselves. Disagree if you will with his aesthetic, even his ability, but do not discount the man's intelligence.
Specifically to those critics who equate the intensity/complexity of one's effort with the quality of a work, all I can say is this is a false measure of art. One has but to bring up a discussion of French Mannerism to underscore the point that more time spent on a painting does not necessarily make it better.
Formal issues aside, as with most art if people will open themselves to the work without preconception about what Art "is" I think they will find something in at least some of Schnabel's work. This massive volume is a good way to get to know his work.
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