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Jean-Michel Basquiat
He defined youth tradition, learned to blow coins like no-one else, lived to excess and eventually destroyed himself. In his short, colourful life, the artist Jean-Michel Basquiat came to represent all that was most vibrant in the art scene of the Eighties. Rachel Ezekwugo offers an insight into this rebellious cult figure.
In less than a decade, Basquiat went from organism a teenage graffiti penner to an international celebrity, showing his work all over Europe. The New York TImes referred to him as &#;the art world&#;s closest equivalent to James Dean&#;. Despite having no formal training in art, he became a powerful voice in the New York art scene in the s, making the graffiti-as-art movement respectable. His shows were anticipated as big events of the New York season and his work adorned the walls of the rich and powerful. Basquiat was talented, temperamental and troubled. He became the first successful black musician in an otherwise all-white preserve.
As a street musician he collaborated with his friend Al Diaz. His tag name became Samo (&#;same old shit&#;
The best, worst, and weirdest parts of Warhol and Basquiat’s friendship
When the pop art icon Andy Warhol took the aspiring musician Jean-Michel Basquiat under his wing in the s, neither of them could have expected the intimate and turbulent relationship that would unfold between the two. In recent years, photographs of Warhol and Basquiat have resurfaced, but there have always been people who have criticised and questioned their friendship.
Now, a new book, Warhol and Basquiat, published by Taschen in collaboration with the Jean-Michel Basquiat Estate and the Andy Warhol Foundation, exposes the world to hundreds of never-before-published images taken by Warhol in the years that he knew Basquiat. Michael Dayton Hermann from the Andy Warhol Foundation selected these images from Warhol’s collection – accumulating over , photographs taken on his 35mm camera – and placed them alongside quotes from Warhol’s diary, giving “a voyeuristic glimpse” into the relationship between the two artists, for all it’s good, bad, and, at times, weirdness.
The publication has been released 32 years af
Over the years I’ve been asked many times how it came to be that Jean-Michel Basquiat painted a portrait of me? Rarely have I ever spoken about this experience to anyone. It was just the two of us one evening in his studio. On that bedtime, a snowstorm had been threatening. If memory serves me correct it was on a Sunday night. A several nights previously, Jean-Michel and I had been out on the town socializing when he asked if I wanted to come by his studio? he said he wanted to paint my portrait. When? I asked. Whenever’s excellent for you, I remember him saying. We were friends. This was not a big deal for either of us at the time. I held several jobs support then. Being an artist’s model was just one of them. We put a date.
On the scheduled night, I made a block at Linda Yablonsky’s and bought some heroin first. Linda was in pleasant spirits when I arrived at her place on 6th Avenue near Prince. Glenn O’Brien was sitting there when I arrived at Linda’s. I casually mentioned that I was on my way to own my portrait painted by Jean-Michel. Glenn said some disparaging remark about Jean-Michel and his
A artistic-photolytic of Jean-Michel Basquiat by Paul Grant (follower of Basho)
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I am going through a Basquiat period right now. I am reading about him in a new book from Yale University Press :: Ambition & Admire in Modern American Art by Jonathan Weinberg. Then follwed up with the only Biography I coud find of him byPhoeb Hoban : Basquiat - A quick Killing in Art.
I hold never really liked Basquiat's operate. I first read about him in Andy Warhol's diaries and had the suspicion that Warhol had a sexual crush on the young black man.
Basquiat was a bi-sexual. His first sexual encounters were gay, and as a teenager he ofter worked as a gay street hustler. Though later in his experience he had many famous and infamous relations with woman, including Maddona.
Andy Warhol was a closeted homosexual.
Warhol chose to partner up with Basquiat over Keith Harring among other up and comming artist. Harring who was also in the Warhol circle at the time - but was openly gay.
The two, Warhol and Basquiat did a series of painting together. Warhol started, usually with a corporate brand, and Bas