Monday, November 9, 2020

ART 125/FIST 318 Jean-Michel Basquiat

“I don’t know how to describe my work. It’s like asking Miles, ‘How does your horn sound?’” - Jean-Michel Basquait

 

Jean-Michel Basquiat Liberty, 1982-83

It's the subconscious as conscious, and consciousness. It's like thinking about writing something, along with visuals, color, forms that are not the obvious choices, but the real ones. It's lettering, like in drafting, and with that special 'E', of some intention, because everything truly means something. Filling up all the space with a very lovely teetering balance. It is a horn, but on a 2D surface.

Jean-Michel Basquiat made pictures that sing like a horn.

 


 

 


 

 

Jean-Michel Basquiat, A Panel of Experts, 1982

 


 

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