'Julian Schnabel: View of Dawn in the Tropics' at Gagosian — artnews.com

Julian Schnabel, Ozymandias, 1990, oil, resin, gesso, and leather on sailcloth. COURTESY ROBERT MCKEEVER/©2014 JULIAN SCHNABEL/ARTISTS RIGHTS SOCIETY (ARS), NEW YORK/COURTESY GAGOSIAN GALLERY. The incorporation of words in paintings is one of Cy Twombly’s favorite devices, and it may be that Schnabel is simultaneously honoring Twombly and contesting him by suggesting that to include ideas in pictures subverts art’s visual essence.

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