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Influenced by Julian Schnabel , Neo-Expressionism

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Principles and Elements of Design

                                                 

Large Girl with No Eyes

Elements

• Texture; using wax and oil paint, attempts to emulate the painting style of an amateur. It's soft hard glossy. 
• Color; mostly used the gradation and mixtures of dark to light. The lips and noses recede, the shadows and highlights float above the surfaces, the flesh tones are smeared on to faces.
• Size; using the simple relationship between area and the object.  In this painting, Julian showed a good arrangement of a human portrait.
• Value; Tonal contrast, which simply the difference between the light and dark areas in a painting. Having less tonal contrast in the foreground allows the large girl to dominate and so not confuse the viewer.

Principles

• Dominance; Schnabel left the eyes out of these giant paintings of faces as a means to force the viewer to look at the paintings and not the eyes.
• Balance ; the negative spaces between left and right are balance
• Contrast; He put the major contrast at the center of the interest and using vertical direction.

Why I Choose Julian Schnabel + His Artworks

• Julian Schnabel, the famed New York artist and eclectic creative spirit
• Julian Schnabel’s career from the 1970s to the present, offering an opportunity to admire paintings and sculptures by a great artist and all-round American phenomenon.
• As a painter, sculptor and film director of international fame, Julian Schnabel stands out for his astounding capacity for creative metamorphoses and the arresting expressive power of his works. 
• A painter first and foremost, he has explored various fields of art, including film, as the acclaimed director ofBasquiat in 1996, Before Night Falls in 2000 (which won the Grand Jury Prize at the Venice Film Festival), and The Diving Bell and the Butterfly in 2007 (which earned him the award for Best Director at the Cannes Film Festival). Schnabel’s films are closely connected to his art, and his work in film can be viewed as a natural continuation of his painting.
• Best known for his plate paintings, Schnabel has in fact used an infinite variety of media and materials to create his works, from velvet to oil cloth, from pieces of wood from all over the world to sails, photographs, rugs, tarpaulins and in general any flat surface that inspires his creative process. This painting process influenced people into making new kinds of art.

The Famous Neo-Expressionist Paintings by Julian Schnabel

The Artist; Julian Schnabel

The emergence of artist Julian Schnabel as a mythical figure was a phenomenon of the modern art world in the 1980. Enormous canvases filled with vibrant colors and bold strokes typify Schnabel's paintings. With his first exhibition at Mary Boone Gallery in 1980, which launched him into the New York art scene, he gathered a following for his emotion-filled unusual works. By the time he exhibited his work in a show jointly organized by Boone and Leo Castelli in 1981, he had become firmly established, and a clamoring for his neo-expressionist paintings created on and with remarkable surfaces ensued. Schnabel's signature works, both abstract and figurative, have as a base surface either black velvet or broken crockery. Filled with raw emotion, the paintings contain an underlying edge of brutality while still being suffused with energy. Schnabel claims that he's "aiming at an emotional state, a state that people can literally walk into and be engulfed by." The monstrous canvases have elements of collage, yet his arrival as an artist signified the return of painting to an art scene that previously revolved around conceptual and minimalist art.

Schnabel's quick rise to popularity became representative of the money-driven 1980s. His notoriety exemplified the commercialization of the art world that related to the economic boom. Considered heroic, with his charismatic and somewhat eccentric personality--the artist worked in pajamas, slippers, and robe--Schnabel became a superstar in art. Controversially, his persona, carefully hyped, often outshone the artwork itself, which inspired debate by critics as to whether it actually held any artistic merit. To the art-buying public, Schnabel's work was the work to own, and his exhibitions often sold out. A proficient artist who worked quickly, Schnabel once claimed to have sold more than sixty canvases in one year. Typifying the era, many critics judged Schnabel's success as an artist based on the incredible demand for his work. With the recession of the late 1980s and the stabilization of the economy in the 1990s, Schnabel's star faded somewhat.

Introduction to Neo-Expressionism

Neo-expressionism is a style of modern painting and sculpture that emerged in the late 1970s and dominated the art market until the mid-1980s. Related to American Lyrical Abstraction,New Image Painting and precedents in Pop painting, it developed as a reaction against the conceptual and minimalistic art of the 1970s. Neo-expressionists returned to portraying recognizable objects, such as the human body (although sometimes in an abstract manner), in a rough and violently emotional way using vivid colours and banal colour harmonies.  Neo-Expressionism was controversial both in the quality of its art products and in the highly commercialized aspects of its presentation to the art-buying public.