Jean-Michel Basquiat: Overdosing On Art
Jean-Michel Basquiat: Overdosing on Art
It was the late summer of August 19, 1988 the terribly young, Jean-Michel Basquiat died tragically of a heroin overdose in his art studio located in Manhattan, New York. There laid Basquiat asleep in a huge bed covered in television noise. Beneath the window of his bathroom were bloody syringes and words written “Broken Heart” with his favorite copyright sign.
Devastated by her friend’s death, Director, Tamra Davis hid away hidden tapes of Basquiat not willing to make profit from his memory. In the film “Jean-Michel Basquiat: The Radiant Child,” Davis took snippet interviews steaming from more than 20 years ago chronologically displays the rise and fall of the young influential artist.
Basquiat was …show more content…
Basquiat work focused on wealth versus poverty, integration versus segregation, and inner versus outer appearance in what you see as abstract, figuration, and historical information wrapped up in this mixed contemporary art fashion.
In the late 70’s Jean-Michel Basquiat arrived on the art scene with astonishing sophistication. Basquiat was an international “Art” superstar apart of a whole new era of artist who were young, bright, and irreverent.
Basquiat always displayed a playful spontaneous nature in which he displayed in his drawings. In which, He handed the public all his brilliant ideas and gave it in his drawings and as an artist. If it was one thing Basquiat was serious about it was making art.
People know Basquiat by his infamous graffiti paintings around New York particularly around the Lower East Side. His works displayed an artless, childlike appearance. Basquiat skillfully brought together traditions, practices, and styles to create a unique kind of visual collage.
Basquiat was multi-tactful and had a non-traditional way and style of doing things. He’d read history and early roman books, mix music and other forms of art influences in his work. With traditions, practices, and styles to create this masterpiece of graffiti based cultural
It was the late summer of August 19, 1988 the terribly young, Jean-Michel Basquiat died tragically of a heroin overdose in his art studio located in Manhattan, New York. There laid Basquiat asleep in a huge bed covered in television noise. Beneath the window of his bathroom were bloody syringes and words written “Broken Heart” with his favorite copyright sign.
Devastated by her friend’s death, Director, Tamra Davis hid away hidden tapes of Basquiat not willing to make profit from his memory. In the film “Jean-Michel Basquiat: The Radiant Child,” Davis took snippet interviews steaming from more than 20 years ago chronologically displays the rise and fall of the young influential artist.
Basquiat was …show more content…
Basquiat work focused on wealth versus poverty, integration versus segregation, and inner versus outer appearance in what you see as abstract, figuration, and historical information wrapped up in this mixed contemporary art fashion.
In the late 70’s Jean-Michel Basquiat arrived on the art scene with astonishing sophistication. Basquiat was an international “Art” superstar apart of a whole new era of artist who were young, bright, and irreverent.
Basquiat always displayed a playful spontaneous nature in which he displayed in his drawings. In which, He handed the public all his brilliant ideas and gave it in his drawings and as an artist. If it was one thing Basquiat was serious about it was making art.
People know Basquiat by his infamous graffiti paintings around New York particularly around the Lower East Side. His works displayed an artless, childlike appearance. Basquiat skillfully brought together traditions, practices, and styles to create a unique kind of visual collage.
Basquiat was multi-tactful and had a non-traditional way and style of doing things. He’d read history and early roman books, mix music and other forms of art influences in his work. With traditions, practices, and styles to create this masterpiece of graffiti based cultural