| Artist: | Schnabel, Julian |
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| Title: | Artist with finished painting on beach in Spain | |
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| Nationality: | American | |
| Context: | Postmodernism | |
| Movement: | Neo-Expressionism | |
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| Process: photos of Schnabel painting that recall photos of Pollock's process; works all-over gestural field painting on the ground in a monumental, heroic scale; his process suggestes a calculated revival and continuation of Pollock's project; can one self-consciously simulate the spontaneous, self-expressive gesture? Can one simulate authenticity? Context: comes on the seen after the 70's conceptual and performance art, a time when many saw painting as dead; ushers in a "Return to Painting' (title of his 1979 exhibit); was such a return authentic or market-induced? No longer the post-war Existential moment where mark-making carried so much weight; the1980's is a post-pop moment of commodification and art world-hype; the modern transcendental heroic quest for the Sublime vs. a postmodern critique of the hero. | ||
