Julian Schnabel. American Painter and filmmaker.

Born in New York City, Julian Schnabel attended the University of Texas from 1969 to 1972. His large-scale paintings that focused on texture and dimension were first exhibited in New York in 1976. Schnabel later began to incorporate shards of broken pottery into his paintings to create unusual surfaces and divisions. His work encouraged the resurgence of Action Painting with his works that depicted many images and figures. His work has become very popular both with the critics and commercially since the early 1980’s.

After decades when minimalism and conceptual art had completely eclipsed painting, schnabel’s work, which often displays a romantic or heroic content, was seen as emotive and subjective.

Discover this short video where Schnabel talks about his series of over painted Polaroids  :

Julian Schnabel is also a filmmaker. He wrote and directed “Basquiat” in 1996.