In the 20-foot-high paintings that dominate Iraq's landscape, he has been a desert horseman, a wheat-cutting peasant and a cement-carrying construction worker.
She was rechecking the position of the door, preparing her exit, when she saw an assortment of foot-high paintings propped on a shelf, under a bare light bulb.
There's no more getting down on the floor to scrape a canvas, as in the old days in the 1980's, when he flayed the blood-red backgrounds behind his graphic, nearly 10-foot-high paintings of torturers, mercenaries and thugs with a meat cleaver.
Still, with mostly overscale works by Andy Warhol, Cy Twombly, Richard Prince, Damien Hirst, Jean-Michel Basquiat and of course Mr. Schnabel himself among the first to be displayed (Mr. Schrager said the art, much of it loaned, will be rotated every few months), the hotel's bars will probably become a destination for those who like their $15 cocktails overwhelmed by 15-foot-high paintings.
The Milanese artist aims to both terrify and excite with his sky-high paintings.
Meanwhile, he brought off a number of excellent jokes on high art — paintings derived from paint-by-numbers kits and minimalist sculptures that, upon first glance, are indistinguishable from Brillo boxes.
BRION GALLERIES "High Energy: Paintings by Jim Fuess and Alex Lombardo," and "Oils, Pastels and Original Prints by Linda Kohl-Orton," both through Jan . 28 , 2001
Previous collaborator Mark Middlewick borrows David Lynch's surrealism and the high contrast paintings of Caravaggio for inspiration as he comes on board once again as director for The Plague, taken from the forthcoming EP, The Laughing Son.
Rotraut's early two-dimensional works made in the medium she refers to as "pâte" -- flour paste -- moved her in the direction of high relief paintings and, eventually, sculpture.
