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Jean-Michel Basquiat was born in 1960 in New York City, where he died in 1988. Born to a Haitian father and a Puerto-Rican mother, Basquiat left his family home in Brooklyn, New York at the age of fifteen and took to the streets. A voracious autodidact, he quickly became a denizen of the explosive and decadent New York underground scene—a ...
Basquiat's work is emblematic of the art world recognition of punk, graffiti, and counter-cultural practice that took place in the early 1980s. Understanding this context, and the interrelation of forms, movements, and scenes in the readjustment of the art world is essential to understanding the cultural environment in which Basquiat made work.
From The Broad Collection: Jean‐Michel Basquiat, Untitled, 1981, acrylic and oilstick on canvas, The Eli and Edythe L. Broad Collection. Many of Jean-Michel Basquiat’s paintings are in some way autobiographical, and Untitled may be considered a form of self-portraiture. The skull here exists somewhere between life and death. The eyes are listless, the face is sunken in, and the head looks ...
Hace 6 días · Fishing, being one of the most famous graffiti paintings by the artist was created in the year 1981. The artist employed the style of neo-expressionism in creating fishing. The original fishing art was measured to be of (172.7 by 198.1cm). The untitled (fishing) has many elements of Jean-Michel Basquiat street works.
Jean-Michel Basquiat’s frenzied and electric Untitled of 1982 depicts one of the artist’s most celebrated themes, rendered in rapid-fire execution in dynamic slashes of red, blue, and black oilstick. The human head is among Basquiat’s most autobiographical subjects, which he obsessively explored particularly during the pivotal year of 1982.
acrylic, oil, oilstick and paper collage on three hinged wooden panels overall: 40 x 70in. (101.6 x 177.8cm.) Transforming his own image into a stark masterwork, in Self-Portrait (1981) Jean-Michel Basquiat becomes an idol. On three hinged wooden panels, echoing the triptych form of a religious altarpiece, two black silhouettes of the artist’s head stare forth from […]
signed, titled and dated ‘DUSTHEADS Jean-Michel Basquiat 82’ (on the reverse) acrylic, oilstick, spray enamel and metallic paint on canvas 72 x 84 in. (182.8 x 213.3 cm.) Set against a backdrop of intense, inky blackness, the brightly colored figures in Jean-Michel Basquiat’s Dustheads represent the ultimate tour-de-force of expressive line, color and form that has come to represent […]
