“The pictoriality of drawing on sculpture is the same as drawing in painting, with one difference. In the paintings pictoriality can create an inside. In sculpture it always remains on the outside”. There are relatively few instances of drawing or writing in Schnabel’s sculpture, such as the triple helix in 2804, 1983, and the letters written on Freud, 1986. Only when a sculpture is recycled, as in the case of Head on a Ramp, 1983-89, which is the same form as CVJ, 1983, does writing and drawing on the surface become a distinguishing characteristic of the work. Schnabel’s use of patina is also important. In many cases the.
