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

 

 

ART 240 Brakhage's Mothlight as "Direct Cinema"

Here's the link to the article about this film.

https://www.questia.com/magazine/1G1-303014346/direct-cinema-j-hoberman-on-stan-brakhage-s-mothlight

Think about this use of cinematic technology. It's the actual thing as the film, but what you see is still  light. How can this change how we think about process? How may one subvert digital apparatus in a similar manor? How could electrical impulses be utilized in a more direct way?