BiographyJulian Schnabel is an American Neo-Expressionist painter who rose to fame in the late 1970s and 1980s with his large-scale plate paintings—canvases embedded with shards of broken crockery—which made him both a star of the art market and a lightning rod for critical debate. His exuberant, monumental approach to painting also led him to film directing, where he earned an Academy Award nomination for The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (2007). He remains a prominent and polarizing figure in both the art world and popular culture.
