Humanity Asleep

Mediums: oil, plates, wood.
Location: the Tate Modern Museum, London (the UK).

The work was created in England, right before the solo exhibition of Julian Schnabel at the Tate Gallery held in 1983. The painting, the inspiration for the creation of which the artist drew from the work of British symbolist William Blake, depicts the heads of two people on a raft and an archangel towering above them. One of the people on the raft is Italian artist Francesco Clemente, and the second is Julian Schnabel himself. The work is created in a manner characteristic of the artist using broken dishes, which creates a textured surface and a deep relief of the work.