Julian Schnabel
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 Schnabel at the 2007 Toronto International Film Festival |
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| Born | October 26, 1951 Brooklyn, New York |
| Spouse | Jacqueline Schnabel (div.) Olatz López Garmendia |
Julian Schnabel (born October 26, 1951) is an American artist and filmmaker. In the 1980s Schnabel received international media attention for his "plate paintings"—large-scale paintings set on broken ceramic plates.
Schnabel directed Before Night Falls, which became Javier Bardem's breakthrough Academy Award nominated role and the four-time Academy Award nominated The Diving Bell and the Butterfly.
He has won a Golden Globe, as well as BAFTA, a César Award, a Golden Palm, two nominations for the Golden Lion and an Academy Award nomination.
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[edit] Early life and education
Born in Brooklyn, New York City to Esta Greenberg and Jack Schnabel.[1] Schnabel moved with his family to Brownsville, Texas when still young.[2] It was in Brownsville that he spent most of his formative years and where he took up surfing and resolved to be an artist.[3] He is from a Jewish background and his mother was president of Hadassah, the Women's Zionist Organization of America in 1948.[4]
He received his B.F.A. at the University of Houston. After graduating, he sent an application to the independent study program at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York. His application included slides of his work sandwiched between two pieces of bread. He was admitted into the program.[2] Schnabel worked as a short-order cook and frequented Max's Kansas City, a restaurant-nightclub, while he worked on his art. In 1975, Schnabel had his first solo show at the Contemporary Arts Museum in Houston. Over the next few years he traveled frequently to Europe, where he was enormously impressed by the work of Antoni Gaudi, Cy Twombly and Joseph Beuys.
[edit] Art
It was with his first solo show, at the Mary Boone Gallery in 1979, however, that Schnabel would truly come to be regarded as a major new force in the art world. He participated at the Venice Biennale in 1980, and by the mid-1980s had become a major figure in the Neo-expressionism movement. By the time he exhibited his work in a show jointly organized by Boone and Leo Castelli in 1981, he had become firmly established. His now famous "plate paintings"—large-scale paintings set on broken ceramic plates—received a boisterous and critical reception from the art world. A reputation for making brash pronouncements about his importance to the art world - I'm the closest thing to Picasso that you'll see in this *#@ life - engendered contempt from both colleagues and the viewing public. Schnabel is currently represented by The Pace Gallery in New York.
Schnabel's signature works contain an underlying edge of brutality, while remaining suffused with compositional energy. Schnabel claims that he's aiming at an emotional state, a state that people can literally walk into and be engulfed.
Schnabel insists he is a painter first and foremost, though he is better known for his films.
| “ | Painting is like breathing to me. It’s what I do all the time. Every day I make art, whether it is painting, writing or making a movie.[5] | ” |
[edit] Museum collections
His works are in the collections of various museums throughout the world, among them the Metropolitan Museum of Art; Museum of Modern Art; The Whitney Museum of American Art; The Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA), Los Angeles; Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Reina Sofia and the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris.
Snchabel will have an upcoming exhibition at the Art Gallery of Ontario in Toronto from September 1, 2010 to January 2, 2011, occupying the entirety of the gallery's fifth floor. It will examine "the rich interplay between [Schnabel's paintings and films]".[6]
[edit] Directing
In addition to his work as an artist, Schnabel has written and directed the films Basquiat, a biopic on the painter Jean-Michel Basquiat (1996), and Before Night Falls (2000), an adaptation of Reinaldo Arenas' autobiographical novel, which he also produced. He directed The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (2007), an adaptation (with a screenplay by Ronald Harwood) of a French memoir by Jean-Dominique Bauby. The Diving Bell and the Butterfly earned him the award for best director at the 2007 Cannes Film Festival,[7] the Golden Globe for best director, the Independent Spirit Award for best director, and a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Director. Schnabel, who designed Lou Reed's critically acclaimed 'Berlin' Tour in 2007, also released 'Berlin the Movie' (http://www.berlinthefilm.com/). Despite the fact that producing The Diving Bell and the Butterfly might seem like a commission to do someone else's work, Schnabel took on the film. According to Schnabel,
| “ | I used to go up to read to Fred Hughes, Andy Warhol’s business partner, who had multiple sclerosis. And as Fred got worse, he ended up locked inside his body. I had been thinking that I might make a movie about Fred when his nurse, Darren McCormick, gave me Bauby’s memoir, The Diving Bell and the Butterfly. Then, in 2003, when my father was dying, the script arrived from Kennedy. So it didn’t feel quite like taking on a commissioned job.[8] | ” |
His latest film Miral was shot in Jerusalem in 2009.
[edit] Writing and recording
Schnabel published his autobiography CVJ: Nicknames of Maitre D's & Other Excerpts From Life (Random House, New York), in 1987 and released the album Every Silver Lining Has a Cloud on Island Records (Catalog #314-524 111-2) in 1995. Recorded in Brooklyn, New York in 1993, the album features guest musicians including Bill Laswell, Bernie Worrell, Buckethead, and Nicky Skopelitis.
[edit] Personal life
Schnabel lives in New York, maintaining studios in New York City and in Montauk on the eastern end of Long Island with a house in San Sebastian in Spain.[3] He has three children by his first wife, clothing designer Jacqueline Beaurang: two daughters, Lola, a painter and film-maker, Stella, a poet and actress, and a son, Vito, an art dealer.[9]
He also has twin sons, Cy and Olmo, by his second wife, Spanish Basque actress and model Olatz López Garmendia. Garmendia appeared in Before Night Falls, and is also to be seen in The Diving Bell, as Bauby's physical therapist.[3] Schnabel is fluent in Spanish.[citation needed] He also learned French to direct The Diving Bell and the Butterfly.
Schnabel is currently in a relationship with Rula Jebreal.[10] Jebreal penned the screenplay, and original source novel, for Schnabel's film Miral.
360 West 11th Street is a former West Village horse stable that Schnabel purchased and converted for residential use, adding five luxury condominiums in the style of a Northern Italian palazzo. It is named the Palazzo Chupi and it easy to spot because it is painted pink.[11]
[edit] See also
[edit] Filmography
- Basquiat (1996)
- Before Night Falls (2000)
- The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (2007)
- Lou Reed's Berlin (2008)
- Miral (2010)
[edit] References
- ^ "Esta Greenberg Schnabel". New York Times. 19 November 2002. http://www.nytimes.com/2002/11/19/classified/paid-notice-deaths-schnabel-esta-green-berg.html. Retrieved 2010-10-30. "Born March 6, 1913, died, Sunday, November 17, 2002. Beloved wife and sweetheart of Jack. Devoted mother to Andrea, Stephen, Julian. Affectionate aunt to Jesse. Loved mother-in-law to Renee and Olatz. Adored sister to Mary and Beatrice, sisterin-law to Nat and Allan. Doting grandmother to Gregory, Steven, Kelly, Deborah, Sally, Elizabeth, Lola, Stella, Vito, Olmo, Cy, Anne, Andrew, Rebecca. Great grandmother to Mikayla, Nina, and Julia. Esta Schnabel was the valedictorian of the Jewish Theological Seminary. President of Hadassah. Innovative fundraiser. Pink lady. Amateur poet. Actress in the films Basquiat and Before Night Falls. Adlibed her lines."
- ^ a b "The double life of Julian: how the bad boy painter turned fêted director". London: The Independent. 2007-05-29. http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/film-and-tv/features/the-double-life-of-julian-how-the-bad-boy-painter-turned-fecircted-director-450802.html. Retrieved 2008-02-05.
- ^ a b c Brown, Mick (19 January 2008). "Julian Schanbel: Larging It". London: The Daily Telegraph. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/arts/main.jhtml?xml=/arts/2008/01/19/sm_julianschnabel119.xml&page=3. Retrieved 2010-05-07.
- ^ Jewish director Julian Schnabel brings Palestine to Venice The Guardian. 2 September 2010
- ^ Linda Yablonsky (February 11, 2008). Conversation With Julian Schnabel. ART+AUCTION. http://www.artinfo.com/news/story/26587/conversation-with-julian-schnabel/
- ^ http://www.ago.net/schnabel
- ^ "Festival de Cannes: The Diving Bell and the Butterfly". festival-cannes.com. http://www.festival-cannes.com/en/archives/ficheFilm/id/4435147/year/2007.html. Retrieved 2009-12-18.
- ^ Linda Yablonsky (February 11, 2008). Conversation With Julian Schnabel. ART+AUCTION. http://www.artinfo.com/news/story/26587/conversation-with-julian-schnabel/. Retrieved 2008-04-22
- ^ "The Schnabel Family". http://www.observer.com/node/36444. The New York Observer
- ^ Schnabel movie chronicles Mideast conflict
- ^ Barbanel, Josh (2009-12-06). "Price Cuts of a Princely Kind". The New York Times. http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/06/realestate/06deal1.html?_r=1&ref=realestate. Retrieved 2010-05-07.
[edit] External links
- Julian Schnabel's art work at Robilant + Voena
- Julian Schnabel at the Internet Movie Database
- The Pace Gallery
- Julian Schnabel at ArtCyclopedia
- Bio of Julian Schnabel
- Julian Schnabel's music discussed at UBUWEB
- Julian Schnabel on Art Jury for Love & Art Children's Foundation's 'L'Enfant et l'Art' collection, 2007.
- Julian Schnabel on Charlie Rose in 2008
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