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Can I find a poetic that can be subversive enough to grab people in some subliminal way, to where they feel that they are altered and have had an experience that belonged to them?

Julian Schnabel

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Julian Schnabel
Age: 73
Born: 1951
Born: October 26
Artist
Director
Drawer
Film Director
Painter
Photographer
Screenwriter
Visual Artist
New York City
New York
G'iuliʼan Shenabel
Julian C. Schnabel
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