Julian Schnabel - over painted Polaroids

The american artist Julian Schnabel became famous in the early 1980s for his plate paintings. He also made a name for himself as a director and screenplay writer with his first film, which was about his friend and fellow artist, "Jean-Michel Basquiat" (1996) and his second film, "Before Night Falls". He has exhibited in all the world's greatest museums and his works can be found in outstanding public and private collections.
In this short Schnabel talkes about his series of over painted Polaroids. The original Polaroids Schnabel used a huge, spectacular 20 x 24-inch Polaroid camera on wheels dating from the 1970s to create unusually large-format images (51 x 61 cm) which are now exhibited at the NRW-Forum in Düsseldorf (30.05.-11.07).

Institut für Kunstdokumentation und Szenografie
A film by Ralph Goertz
© IKS/Ralph Goertz 2010
music by Julian Schnabel/jused by permission

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• Basquiat
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• Ralph Goertz
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• Düsseldorf
• NRW-Forum

[Rubbaslipah]

I met the Julian surfing on Maui he is an alright person cannot surf that well but he does surf I give him that much his mind is every where but no where its all about timing and he has done different things good and bad subjective very, Julian if you every read this comment remember what you said before leaving Honolua bay when i almost ran you over take care those who you said you where going to ask Herbie Fletcher if you forgot me!!!!

[hout00gje]

Great painter!!!

[catandpiddle]

agreed. it's pretty subjective but I stick with it; schnabel can't paint. I'd go so far as to say that he also knows it.

[DanimalLawlz]

@catandpiddle Art's pretty subjective don't you think?

[catandpiddle]

the fact of the matter is; the man cannot paint, period. never could, never will. successful? you bet.

[carnisero43]

Amazing art, amazing artist!!