Glad you were able to make it in to see this exhibition in the brief time it was up Thanks for mentioning Forrest Bess looked it up I can see how the work relates to this! Fantastic!
Praise and criticism come out of the same bucket. Julian is a real artist. Like all real artists, he is a work in progress himself. Learning, thinking, experimenting, creating. He is probably never bored. A real artist has to have a thick skin with a sense of humor. There are bored trolls everywhere. He paints what he wants, when he wants. I think he just keeps getting better. I see these works as some of his best. I am happy he keeps painting. A real artist has to satisfy her/his own self, first. Most critics are wanna-be-artists anyway who have 'excuses' for not creating. Thanks, James, for continuing to create and share these wonderful videos. Many of us live in faraway places from New York. You and Kate are really helping to share ART!!!
To me he's both really good and at times pretty lousy and when it's lousy it's because they seem, look, feel Vapid. He is way too in love with every mark he makes and it can feel very pretty, decorative, nice and utterly, as I said- Empty. At other times they are remarkably elegant and I like the mean and lean aspect to them when they work. The larger ones in this show are the ones I have the most trouble with. They remind me a lot also of Polke/Twombly/Motherwell et-al but without their particular bite and depth at times. I say this and yet I know I am capable of rethinking and changing my opinion especially with new works by whomever. Thanks James for this, as always !!!!
As I stated in the vid, I’ve been watching Julian’s work since the late 1970s, and it seems to me that since the late 80s to the mid 90s there’s a sense of vulnerability and doubt that wasn’t present or visible in the work from the heydays of the 80s. This is about the time Julian started shifting his focus to the movie industry and celebrity. Also, one has to consider his relation to the market. Julian was always known for his audacity and bombast, and it’s still there, but in a more pathetic, almost more “showbiz” way…(There’s a certain attractiveness to that?)
You are doing a good job. The NY art scene is pretty messed up, so inbred. You are a breath of fresh air, no nonsense or bs, just telling it like it is!
Thanks James, The intro music seems so appropriate for the content. Julian is a curious/underated art icon......his pieces seem accessable, and inacessable all at once. I dont know if he is trying to teach, or unteach something, at any rate, the suggestion of dualities becomes a gateway into the realm of contemplation! To l et go of one thing , is to gain access to something else, feels, and looks like Julian is holding his breath.......i am anticipating the exhale.......should be transformative! Nice to see a gifted person perusing the potential of his internal landscape! The large scale pieces have a tension to them, confliict like, with margins of intimacy, internal, and external asserting a complex appreciation, for negative, and positive spaces! I am not an art critic, just an artist, enjoying a moment, with another artists work! This video enhanced my day! You are the best, be safe,...... Greetings from Idaho!
Thank you so much for going out there, sharing the exhibit with us. Especially during this global virus outbreak. Double thanks to Kate. I'm a big fan of Julian Schnabel for what he represents and that is "Total Freedom".
This is modern day "Formalism" and as a Formal Colorist Julian Schnabel has done an exultant job of exposing us all to vibrant, intense and cornea impressing colors. These paintings are about color that many people would never see. The large scale is to give perspective to the amount of the very fine detail, expensive and triumphant application of pigment. The paintings showcase a vibrant pigment of just the right amount and Julian Schnabel should be congratulated for succeeding in a very under appreciated form of art.
I am a big fan, thank you for all the videos. just want to say, pls take care, and may you have a lot more videos to shoot after all this is over. Stay safe.
JAMES! -- Been thinking about you and Kate. I really hope you're both doing the self quarantine thing. I can speak for many when I say: WE ALL WANT YOU BOTH HEALTHY AND AROUND FOR A LONG TIME. Please, stay safe and healthy. Maybe do a video update on YOUR artwork and what YOUVE been up to. Much love to you both! As always -- thank you Kate!
For a moment I reflected on the fact that Schnabel, you and I were born the same year and I thought, "some people get all the breaks..." But all in all, your work has given me so much more pleasure than Mr Schnabel's ever has. Just thought I'd let you know... By the way, many, many thanks to the "love of your life", Kate.
Hey, James, I just bought a Morris Katz painting for $80. Do you know much about him or have you ever covered him?. I know he's deceased but I wonder if they ever have any shows for him since he lived in the Bronx area.
Thanks for this James. The works in the front had a bacon feel to me even the palette and the stacatto strokes. I thought the shaped works the most interesting.
Saw Bacon in them too, something about the spatial layout as well as the haziness. Feeling disappoiinted overall by this show but mabye I need to look so more. I agree with what someone said above about Schnable's work feeling accessible, like he's not full of ego the way many big male contemporaries can feel.
I'm really interested in the found fabric idea, it seemed most of the fabric had some stains, perhaps grease spots, before Julian put any paint on them.
Hi James Kalm! Given the current bizarre situation we are all in, and the fact it has caused so many galleries to go on lock down, how do you fancy giving us paint heads a little tour of your studio? I know I'm not the only one who'd enjoy listening to you talk more about your own work. Take care, from Polly in the UK.
Check out the Gorkysgranddaughter blog. There's an excellent interview on there with Mr. Kalm (AKA Lauren Munk), which takes place in his studio. He's an interesting painter.
Always brightens my day to check out a new visit from you.Thanks , James for all that you do. I have become a loyal follower. But now it's time to express some harsh words for this exhibit : Oddly enough this is the weakest exhibition of Schnabel's painting I've ever seen. I say oddly enough because you would expect something more ambitious in order to honor the event of this ambitious new, multi floored building. All the gestures have no force or genuine conviction behind them, merely full of hot air.. The lines have a stingy quality that are too weak and inept to fill the large canvasses. Last but not least is the use of color in these canvasses, which is simply ghastly. It's as if he was color blind. .I better stop now.. Stay safe and good night, Kate.
Hey 2@juliamargaretcameron please don't feel that you have to apologize for having an opinion. For the last several years, I've wrapped up the reports asking viewers to leave their "thoughts, ideas comments, criticisms and reviews below". I believe a big part of art, and looking at art, is developing and expressing a critical aesthetic opinion. You've done that, so congratulations and stay tuned...JK
@@jameskalm The only areas in all the paintings that are somewhat convincing and have magnetism are these sort of thickish bands that you pointed out..A motif he has repeated thru the years. If only he had stopped there and kept it simple. Hence just a bunch of noise.
So the first thing is the fabrics that Schnabel is using are from tarps found in Mexico that were covering food stalls and the like. Schnabel told me at the opening the marks that weren't painted are from the armature of the tarp's frame. These are the lightest, barely visible marks that contrast with the sections of heavily applied paint. I've always been struck by his use of color, texture, and mark making which impressed me with his earliest works and this show is no different. The thing is I could say that about literally thousands of artists I've seen over the years. I've also never really though of Schnabel as a "neo-expressionist" which to me implies very quick, gestural work in most cases. Here, as in many of his works, the paint is applied very slowly, carefully, and thoughtfully. For me the paintings in the two front galleries were more engaging. The larger pieces in the back gallery were just ok and more like off hand sketches than fully realized paintings and quite frankly kind of lazy, intellectually. I get that their "almost nothing is there quality" was meant as a juxtaposition to the more elaborate paintings in the front rooms but I felt they needed his trademark insertion of painted text, or something. Paintings aside I was kind of surprised by Schnabel's jump from Gagosian to Pace a few years ago. Promotion and marketing are still the name of the game and Schnabel plays it very well.
These are interesting paintings. At first glance I dismissed them as just another recall of New York School action painting. But there’s something subtly different going on here - which has to do with painterly gesture. There is a formless, anarchic and anonymous quality to the mark-making which you don’t really see in ab-ex. - and also a kind of aesthetic inconsistency which strains against the pictorial gestalt of the image as a whole. For ex. in some of the distorted canvases (the one at 13:45 in particular), it appears as though the support is being stretched out diagonally in order to 'catch' or contain the diagonally upward movement of the paint strokes.
The first ones look kind of awful, but the large ones are much more interesting; I love the way the canvas are almost melting in a Daliesque way. "James Kalm has been in a state of social distancing for decades". Hilarious!
To me julian is still a superstar, but so is Loren Munk. Good to see you're well. Stay safe and healthy, God bless you, greetings from christian_orphee 🖌️🎨
Very much enjoy Your art/galleries videos. Most yt vids featuring paintings don't really focus long enuff on the individual pieces to get a very good look at 'em. You do it correctly ie 'hover/cover' imo. Also enjoy how You usually begin Your videos by featuring a 'busker' or group of street musicians. Okay, Over/Out.
Schnable has written some very insightful essays about painting but he isn't what I would call a great practitioner. His work has caught my eye many times since I first saw him in 1980s biennial. After initially being taken aback by the scale or unusual use of materials his work doesn't seem to hold up under sustained looking. Just my take. Thanks.
I, unfortunately feel that Julian has shifted much of his creative energies to the film making and the world of celebrity, so lost some of his painting MoJo...
@@jameskalm Strangely satisfying I enjoyed the alternate film crew lights camera action , Old Circus Tarp the rips the tears reckless and excited motion of the colour orchestrations bringing to mind a circus environment
jameskalm what is so refreshing in today’s world of people delivering harsh criticism and being offended is the little haven that you provide in your gentle, allowing comments.
Julian never fails to bring out the best and worst in people.... he must be doing something right, cuz the jealous and envious haters can’t help but attack him....you gotta love it 😍 thanks JK.... I love Schnabel’s horizons, and his confident use of paint. The odd shaped canvases look unfinished in terms of interesting paint. His popularity is not unearned.
Found in a fabric wholesaler warehouse. Bought a couple miles of the stuff. Schnabel knows his audience. They want grand gestures that mean nothing and Schnabel is ambitious enough to satisfy them. Painting is now an old man's game.
@@ronagoodwell2709 beware, I was told 'painting was dead' by a tutor in 1994, look at us now. Oh and ill pass on your salutations to Cecily Brown, Charlene Von Hey, Katherine Bernhart etc etc etc.
I used to think that some of Schnabel's work was interesting, but as time has passed, he's feeling less and less important to me and I think his work is becoming less and less interesting. The larger pieces in this show do a bit more for me, but that's perhaps some of the imagery recalls William Baziotes, whose work I really admire. I'd put Schnabel in the same category as Francesco Clemente--his recent show wasn't all that interesting and, I don't know, it seems like fewer and fewer people are looking back at his stuff and giving him any props. I can't say the same thing about some of the other "wunderkinds" of the 80s, like Basquiat and Haring: their work seems to be holding their for me and others strength as time passes. My sense is that history will not be kind to Schnabel as a painter, but that's just MHO. But as a film maker...that's another story. All the films he's made have been fantastic, particularly The Diving Bell and the Butterfly. I just wish he'd make more of them, but maybe the collaborative nature and expense of filmmaking is too taxing for him...who knows. OK...I'll stop now.
From what I’ve recently seen, many people (curators, critics, and museum people) who initially tried to ignore Schnabel, due to the overblown press hype of the early 1980s, are taking a second look at what was actually happening in the paintings. Admittedly, not everything was/is great, but there is somehow a reflection of the time, and the attitude of the era, that Schnabel’s work embodies…
@@jameskalm Hmmm...OK. What you're saying is probably true. I mean, don't get me wrong...a lot of those plate paintings are really good--their literal and psychological heaviness really do speak to a sort of "over the top" aesthetic of the 80s--but beyond that, I don't know. It's kind of like he found some sort of a gimmick and hit home runs with it, but then couldn't really go anywhere else as a painter and then when he goes back to straight neo-expressionist/ab ex work, it just looks sort of pedestrian, derivative, and not really exciting. But again, what do I know? LOL
Sorry but to me they seem extremely self conscious. I can't get involved with them. There's so many references to other paintings without any synthesis or development. It just sits on the surface waiting for reactions.
I started getting a cascade of announcements that various galleries and museums were closing (temporarily), this in the face of an already tough market. So there will be blood...
Sorry to say this exhibit of paintings left me feeling listless. I crave harmony, music..At least a sense of urgency behind the marks. No authentic register of color. as if he is color blind. If you look closely nothing holds together. Thin, rather stingy..You would expect something more robust , wouldn't you from the physically robust guy who created so many heart warming films.
You seem to be at a loss for new words to say about this work. “Ambitious” 🤔 Kept referring to his past and how he became a star. “Scale” and “If you can do it, do it!” Look closely and you can find a spit wad. 👏🏽
I used to like schnabels paintings in the late 80s and I occasionally like some of his work but these don't have the same energy or feeling, they look rushed and amateur compared to his earlier work, like a bad painter has copied his work. I think he became too big and so did the scale of his work, 8it's like he's bored, theres no soul in most of this work, these do nothing for me they just look like regurgitated old ideas.
Thanks for doing this! So great to have this NYC infused art show with great subway busking and evangelical/apocalyptic street art. And all on a day that the news brings back memories of 1987 black Monday. That was the best part of the show. This time Schnabels paintings just seem empty to me. And all the fancy video production on going isnt going to help. Maybe try super 8. Painting isnt a part time job. To bad. Thanks JK and stay safe!
Glad you were able to make it in to see this exhibition in the brief time it was up
Thanks for mentioning Forrest Bess looked it up I can see how the work relates to this! Fantastic!
Praise and criticism come out of the same bucket. Julian is a real artist. Like all real artists, he is a work in progress himself. Learning, thinking, experimenting, creating. He is probably never bored. A real artist has to have a thick skin with a sense of humor. There are bored trolls everywhere. He paints what he wants, when he wants. I think he just keeps getting better. I see these works as some of his best. I am happy he keeps painting. A real artist has to satisfy her/his own self, first. Most critics are wanna-be-artists anyway who have 'excuses' for not creating. Thanks, James, for continuing to create and share these wonderful videos. Many of us live in faraway places from New York. You and Kate are really helping to share ART!!!
Thank you very much James! Julian is a great and complex artist. His works are poetic. Thanks for reviewing the great show.
Yes, I agree!!!!
To me he's both really good and at times pretty lousy and when it's lousy it's because they seem, look, feel Vapid. He is way too in love with every mark he makes and it can feel very pretty, decorative, nice and utterly, as I said- Empty. At other times they are remarkably elegant and I like the mean and lean aspect to them when they work. The larger ones in this show are the ones I have the most trouble with. They remind me a lot also of Polke/Twombly/Motherwell et-al but without their particular bite and depth at times. I say this and yet I know I am capable of rethinking and changing my opinion especially with new works by whomever. Thanks James for this, as always !!!!
As I stated in the vid, I’ve been watching Julian’s work since the late 1970s, and it seems to me that since the late 80s to the mid 90s there’s a sense of vulnerability and doubt that wasn’t present or visible in the work from the heydays of the 80s. This is about the time Julian started shifting his focus to the movie industry and celebrity. Also, one has to consider his relation to the market. Julian was always known for his audacity and bombast, and it’s still there, but in a more pathetic, almost more “showbiz” way…(There’s a certain attractiveness to that?)
Thank you so much, its always so great to be there with you...:)
I love your channel and the way you explain stuff and talk about the history of the works and the artists. I have learned alot!
Thanks @Chris van Walsum, glad you enjoyed the vids...JK
You are doing a good job. The NY art scene is pretty messed up, so inbred. You are a breath of fresh air, no nonsense or bs, just telling it like it is!
That's why I'm considered an “art world pariah”...JK
Thanks James, The intro music seems so appropriate for the content. Julian is a curious/underated art icon......his pieces seem accessable, and inacessable all at once. I dont know if he is trying to teach, or unteach something, at any rate, the suggestion of dualities becomes a gateway into the realm of contemplation! To l et go of one thing , is to gain access to something else, feels, and looks like Julian is holding his breath.......i am anticipating the exhale.......should be transformative! Nice to see a gifted person perusing the potential of his internal landscape! The large scale pieces have a tension to them, confliict like, with margins of intimacy, internal, and external asserting a complex appreciation, for negative, and positive spaces! I am not an art critic, just an artist, enjoying a moment, with another artists work! This video enhanced my day! You are the best, be safe,......
Greetings from Idaho!
Thanks for this replay @Desmond Hall in Idaho...JK
Desmond Hall, you sound like a real artist. It takes a real artist to understand another real artist. Well said by you!!!
thank again Kate, please look after yourselves during the pandemic, sending lots of love from the south africans in norway
Thank you so much for going out there, sharing the exhibit with us. Especially during this global virus outbreak. Double thanks to Kate.
I'm a big fan of Julian Schnabel for what he represents and that is "Total Freedom".
This is modern day "Formalism" and as a Formal Colorist Julian Schnabel has done an exultant job of exposing us all to vibrant, intense and cornea impressing colors. These paintings are about color that many people would never see. The large scale is to give perspective to the amount of the very fine detail, expensive and triumphant application of pigment. The paintings showcase a vibrant pigment of just the right amount and Julian Schnabel should be congratulated for succeeding in a very under appreciated form of art.
Thanks James! We appreciate your time and effort! Its great to get a taste of the NY art scene when you don't live there. Keep it up! Stay safe!
Thank you James that was awesome to see brand new work from Julian Schnabel... stay safe from Perth Western Australia
I have been amazed by Julian Schnabel since the 80's! Amazed how he keeps getting galleries to show his work. Love his movies tho
I am a big fan, thank you for all the videos. just want to say, pls take care, and may you have a lot more videos to shoot after all this is over. Stay safe.
Thanks @Johathan Ching, we're taking care and looking forward to getting back to this project. You take care too...
Great visit...thank you, James!
Thanks James for making the New York scene available to all!
Occasionally, Schnabel nails it, "Preschool and After School" might be one of those paintings.
Thanks a lot James to let us see the NY art scene so closely. Great job as usual !
The name of the artist you mentioned ... was it forest Best? Or... difficult to hear
The amazing Forrest Bess: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forrest_Bess Also this Kalm Report from the archives: ruclips.net/video/kQiPAhNvZpY/видео.html
Something satisfying in these elaborations by Julian Schnabel Albeit one was hung upside down Thank you Kate and James
JAMES! -- Been thinking about you and Kate. I really hope you're both doing the self quarantine thing. I can speak for many when I say: WE ALL WANT YOU BOTH HEALTHY AND AROUND FOR A LONG TIME. Please, stay safe and healthy. Maybe do a video update on YOUR artwork and what YOUVE been up to. Much love to you both! As always -- thank you Kate!
For a moment I reflected on the fact that Schnabel, you and I were born the same year and I thought, "some people get all the breaks..." But all in all, your work has given me so much more pleasure than Mr Schnabel's ever has. Just thought I'd let you know... By the way, many, many thanks to the "love of your life", Kate.
Hey @buzz for an older person (who might not have gotten "all the breaks") you make a lot of sense...and Kate says thanks to you...JK
@@jameskalm Thank you, JK. We ex GI's have a habit of being able to spot someone who makes sense.
thanks for your work mr. kalm.greetings from Brazil
Hey, James, I just bought a Morris Katz painting for $80. Do you know much about him or have you ever covered him?. I know he's deceased but I wonder if they ever have any shows for him since he lived in the Bronx area.
Great Culture Club song. Btw thanks again James for these posts. Most of us who love NYC aren’t fortune enough to live there. ✌️
🙏🙏🙏 beautiful painting... épuration du geste, écriture où tout est dit de l'action de peinture, 👏 Julian
Thanks for this James. The works in the front had a bacon feel to me even the palette and the stacatto strokes. I thought the shaped works the most interesting.
Saw Bacon in them too, something about the spatial layout as well as the haziness. Feeling disappoiinted overall by this show but mabye I need to look so more. I agree with what someone said above about Schnable's work feeling accessible, like he's not full of ego the way many big male contemporaries can feel.
Thank you for share
Thank you Kate, thank you everybody.
Thank you Kate.
Thanks for the eye candy, New York sliver and Kate.
Julian's son, Vito, was checking his phone as you entered the gallery. That's cool.
Thank you Kate thanks James
Thank you James. Best-
Thank you Kate
I thought you had reservations about some of Julian's work?
Yes @David Helsham, I have "reservations" about most everything...
Thanks for the vids man
"A Patch of Blue" was a movie that everyone should see.
Thanks for the content James. You're awesome
thanks doe doing this...why aren't folks masked up!
Yes @joseph lee this video was recorded before there were government mandates to wear "face coverings"...
@@jameskalmroughcut really appreciate your takes!
love what you're doing.... thanks man!
James thank you
From the hinterlands
Self taught amateur here
I appreciate your vids and narration
your equipment is perfect
Great video, well explained.Thanks
I'm really interested in the found fabric idea, it seemed most of the fabric had some stains, perhaps grease spots, before Julian put any paint on them.
tks for show
I love his paintings on plates!
I don't think I've ever been enchanted or moved or attracted to a Schnabel painting. The piece around 15:12 is quite interesting though.
Hi James Kalm! Given the current bizarre situation we are all in, and the fact it has caused so many galleries to go on lock down, how do you fancy giving us paint heads a little tour of your studio? I know I'm not the only one who'd enjoy listening to you talk more about your own work. Take care, from Polly in the UK.
Also... thanks Kate!
Check out the Gorkysgranddaughter blog. There's an excellent interview on there with Mr. Kalm (AKA Lauren Munk), which takes place in his studio. He's an interesting painter.
@@sandraheaton1084 Thank you for that. I will check it out.
Always brightens my day to check out a new visit from you.Thanks , James for all that you do. I have become a loyal follower. But now it's time to express some harsh words for this exhibit : Oddly enough this is the weakest exhibition of Schnabel's painting I've ever seen. I say oddly enough because you would expect something more ambitious in order to honor the event of this ambitious new, multi floored building. All the gestures have no force or genuine conviction behind them, merely full of hot air.. The lines have a stingy quality that are too weak and inept to fill the large canvasses. Last but not least is the use of color in these canvasses, which is simply ghastly. It's as if he was color blind. .I better stop now.. Stay safe and good night, Kate.
Hey 2@juliamargaretcameron please don't feel that you have to apologize for having an opinion. For the last several years, I've wrapped up the reports asking viewers to leave their "thoughts, ideas comments, criticisms and reviews below". I believe a big part of art, and looking at art, is developing and expressing a critical aesthetic opinion. You've done that, so congratulations and stay tuned...JK
@@jameskalm The only areas in all the paintings that are somewhat convincing and have magnetism are these sort of thickish bands that you pointed out..A motif he has repeated thru the years. If only he had stopped there and kept it simple. Hence just a bunch of noise.
So the first thing is the fabrics that Schnabel is using are from tarps found in Mexico that were covering food stalls and the like. Schnabel told me at the opening the marks that weren't painted are from the armature of the tarp's frame. These are the lightest, barely visible marks that contrast with the sections of heavily applied paint. I've always been struck by his use of color, texture, and mark making which impressed me with his earliest works and this show is no different. The thing is I could say that about literally thousands of artists I've seen over the years. I've also never really though of Schnabel as a "neo-expressionist" which to me implies very quick, gestural work in most cases. Here, as in many of his works, the paint is applied very slowly, carefully, and thoughtfully. For me the paintings in the two front galleries were more engaging. The larger pieces in the back gallery were just ok and more like off hand sketches than fully realized paintings and quite frankly kind of lazy, intellectually. I get that their "almost nothing is there quality" was meant as a juxtaposition to the more elaborate paintings in the front rooms but I felt they needed his trademark insertion of painted text, or something. Paintings aside I was kind of surprised by Schnabel's jump from Gagosian to Pace a few years ago. Promotion and marketing are still the name of the game and Schnabel plays it very well.
These look like bad Albert Oehlen paintings
These are interesting paintings. At first glance I dismissed them as just another recall of New York School action painting. But there’s something subtly different going on here - which has to do with painterly gesture. There is a formless, anarchic and anonymous quality to the mark-making which you don’t really see in ab-ex. - and also a kind of aesthetic inconsistency which strains against the pictorial gestalt of the image as a whole. For ex. in some of the distorted canvases (the one at 13:45 in particular), it appears as though the support is being stretched out diagonally in order to 'catch' or contain the diagonally upward movement of the paint strokes.
Yeah, Sandra Heaton, you got it. You sound like a real artist, yourself!!!
Schnabel gives a bad name to bad artists. Robert Hughes is smiling and says I told you so!
The first ones look kind of awful, but the large ones are much more interesting; I love the way the canvas are almost melting in a Daliesque way. "James Kalm has been in a state of social distancing for decades". Hilarious!
Very new concept, the world is being reconstructed!
To me julian is still a superstar, but so is Loren Munk.
Good to see you're well. Stay safe and healthy, God bless you, greetings from christian_orphee 🖌️🎨
Very much enjoy Your art/galleries videos. Most yt vids featuring paintings don't really focus long enuff on the individual pieces to get a very good look at 'em. You do it correctly ie 'hover/cover' imo. Also enjoy how You usually begin Your videos by featuring a 'busker' or group of street musicians. Okay, Over/Out.
It's awful how the camera keeps moving around. We don't have a chance of actually looking at the paintings!
Really enjoyed these. Especially considering the last set of plate paintings was dreadful.
interesting images like the forms...would take this over the broken plates any day.
What is the reference to Thank You Kate?
Kate is the Executive Producer...
warm greeting from Bali
Thank you James! (Will I ever know who Kate is?)
Kate is the Executive Producer, and the LOVE of my life...
@@jameskalm Sweet!
Haven’t watched the video yet but, wow, that’s a devastating title. How to not be an art world pariah...
Schnable has written some very insightful essays about painting but he isn't what I would call a great practitioner. His work has caught my eye many times since I first saw him in 1980s biennial. After initially being taken aback by the scale or unusual use of materials his work doesn't seem to hold up under sustained looking. Just my take. Thanks.
I, unfortunately feel that Julian has shifted much of his creative energies to the film making and the world of celebrity, so lost some of his painting MoJo...
@@jameskalm Strangely satisfying I enjoyed the alternate film crew lights camera action , Old Circus Tarp the rips the tears reckless and excited motion of the colour orchestrations bringing to mind a circus environment
jameskalm what is so refreshing in today’s world of people delivering harsh criticism and being offended is the little haven that you provide in your gentle, allowing comments.
@@SA-xg5eo gentle is what we do here, thanks...JK
Thks James for showing declining artists. Kind of sad. Anyways, I still like broken plates around.
the gestures and inner motives of a painter who has repeated his manner for decades. Hope he finds a way out of the maze.
Julian never fails to bring out the best and worst in people.... he must be doing something right, cuz the jealous and envious haters can’t help but attack him....you gotta love it 😍 thanks JK.... I love Schnabel’s horizons, and his confident use of paint. The odd shaped canvases look unfinished in terms of interesting paint. His popularity is not unearned.
What does 'found fabric' mean? I bet he and Tim Gunn went to Mood.
Found in a thrift shop' grandma's estate' in the garbage down the street from his abode. Who knows. Cheers
Found in a fabric wholesaler warehouse. Bought a couple miles of the stuff. Schnabel knows his audience. They want grand gestures that mean nothing and Schnabel is ambitious enough to satisfy them. Painting is now an old man's game.
@@ronagoodwell2709 beware, I was told 'painting was dead' by a tutor in 1994, look at us now. Oh and ill pass on your salutations to Cecily Brown, Charlene Von Hey, Katherine Bernhart etc etc etc.
found fabric is just that something that you found and repurposed it to use in art.
Owes Tapies a check🖋️
Did u run there?
No, I biked in from Brooklyn...
jameskalm only teasing I fast forwarded a little and u were breathing heavy. I love and appreciate your uploads. Thanks James
THANK YOU KATE, stay safe and healthy, christian_orphee 🌹
I used to think that some of Schnabel's work was interesting, but as time has passed, he's feeling less and less important to me and I think his work is becoming less and less interesting. The larger pieces in this show do a bit more for me, but that's perhaps some of the imagery recalls William Baziotes, whose work I really admire. I'd put Schnabel in the same category as Francesco Clemente--his recent show wasn't all that interesting and, I don't know, it seems like fewer and fewer people are looking back at his stuff and giving him any props. I can't say the same thing about some of the other "wunderkinds" of the 80s, like Basquiat and Haring: their work seems to be holding their for me and others strength as time passes. My sense is that history will not be kind to Schnabel as a painter, but that's just MHO. But as a film maker...that's another story. All the films he's made have been fantastic, particularly The Diving Bell and the Butterfly. I just wish he'd make more of them, but maybe the collaborative nature and expense of filmmaking is too taxing for him...who knows. OK...I'll stop now.
From what I’ve recently seen, many people (curators, critics, and museum people) who initially tried to ignore Schnabel, due to the overblown press hype of the early 1980s, are taking a second look at what was actually happening in the paintings. Admittedly, not everything was/is great, but there is somehow a reflection of the time, and the attitude of the era, that Schnabel’s work embodies…
@@jameskalm Hmmm...OK. What you're saying is probably true. I mean, don't get me wrong...a lot of those plate paintings are really good--their literal and psychological heaviness really do speak to a sort of "over the top" aesthetic of the 80s--but beyond that, I don't know. It's kind of like he found some sort of a gimmick and hit home runs with it, but then couldn't really go anywhere else as a painter and then when he goes back to straight neo-expressionist/ab ex work, it just looks sort of pedestrian, derivative, and not really exciting. But again, what do I know? LOL
How much is a Schanbel blob painting selling for these days? $250K?
Found fabric as in recycled fabric maybe. Cheers
Sorry James, those are a hot mess.
Feel good
Sorry but to me they seem extremely self conscious. I can't get involved with them. There's so many references to other paintings without any synthesis or development. It just sits on the surface waiting for reactions.
Do you think that Coronavirus will bankrupt another round of galleries?
I started getting a cascade of announcements that various galleries and museums were closing (temporarily), this in the face of an already tough market. So there will be blood...
@@jameskalm im an artist who sells mainly at the fairs and I am literally hanging on by a thread.
i don't think you need that stuff too James
No masks and terrible art. Double whammy of unfathomableness.
Ugh
Can you pass a plate of mauve!
Sorry to say this exhibit of paintings left me feeling listless. I crave harmony, music..At least a sense of urgency behind the marks. No authentic register of color. as if he is color blind. If you look closely nothing holds together. Thin, rather stingy..You would expect something more robust , wouldn't you from the physically robust guy who created so many heart warming films.
You seem to be at a loss for new words to say about this work. “Ambitious” 🤔 Kept referring to his past and how he became a star. “Scale” and “If you can do it, do it!” Look closely and you can find a spit wad. 👏🏽
Stop swinging the camera! I'm getting sick.
Don Fortenberry that’s because you don’t wash your hands and you also lick door knobs. You got corona boi
oil and ink on " toned found fabric" gimmee a fuckin break will ya
I used to like schnabels paintings in the late 80s and I occasionally like some of his work but these don't have the same energy or feeling, they look rushed and amateur compared to his earlier work, like a bad painter has copied his work. I think he became too big and so did the scale of his work, 8it's like he's bored, theres no soul in most of this work, these do nothing for me they just look like regurgitated old ideas.
All these details are only interresting if you are aware of t he whole. Realy bad video.
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julian may be as bad an artist as the over hyped artist basquait maybe worse
more crap art from the worlds worst living artist. I will say his Van Gogh film was terrific actually so touching 10 times better than Basquait
Jealous?
Cliff DaRiff of what?
Thanks for doing this! So great to have this NYC infused art show with great subway busking and evangelical/apocalyptic street art. And all on a day that the news brings back memories of 1987 black Monday. That was the best part of the show. This time Schnabels paintings just seem empty to me. And all the fancy video production on going isnt going to help. Maybe try super 8.
Painting isnt a part time job. To bad.
Thanks JK and stay safe!
Nice...insightful...JK
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