Julian Schnabel (1951)

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American artist Julian Schnabel was born in New York in 1951, 1969-1973. He studied at the Academy of Arts at the University of Houston, and then was admitted to the school Whitney. His first solo exhibition was held at the Modern Art Museum of Houston in 1976, very fast painter, belonged to the movement of "Bad Painting» (Bad Painting) - reaction to minimalism and conceptualism 1970. Which rehabilitates the painting and is not afraid of bad taste, became one of the prominent figures of the neo-expressionism.
In Europe, where he went to learn the art of old masters, his particular interest Giotto, Fra Angelico, Caravaggio, and Antonio Gaudi.