Dante

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(King Hamburger Pimp And) The Sundance Kid think you should know about…
Jean-Michel Basquiat is one of the great artists of the latter half of the twentieth century. With over 1,000 paintings and 1,000 drawings (separately), he was extraordinarily prolific. What compounds the astounding volume of his work is that he is also part of the infamous Twenty-Seven Society, having died at the same age as Kurt Cobain and co. He began by doing graffiti under the joint sobriquet SAMO (”same-o”) before painting.
The moniker was a truncated form of ‘same old shit’, which he and an art school friend tagged around SoHo throughout the late seventies and early eighties in a manner anticipatory of Shepard Fairley’s ‘Andre the Giant has a Posse’ stencils, later to be itself reduced to ‘OBEY’. While the tag caught on, Basquiat and friend Al Diaz had a falling out, which in part precipitated him declaring ‘SAMO is dead’ all around SoHo.
Basquiat would overlap with many important cultural touchstones of the 80s. He was featured on NYC public access television show TV Party, hosted by future GQ Style Guy Glenn O’Brien. In part through these avante garde circles he came to be part of the club scene which predominated New York City 80s, even having a trist with a young Madonna and playing in a band with Vincent Gallo. ‘Gray’, as it was known, was named for Gray’s Anatomy, the famous anatomy book, a copy of which his mother gave to him during a childhood hospitalization. He later cited it as an early inspiration to begin drawing.
Indeed, much of his style shows a bare assemblage of the human figure, drawing on pre-civilization cave art for some of his choices, and conjoining them with an extremely literate historicity. Basquiat, of Haitian decent, often features a racial presence in his work which reveals his awareness of blackness as the Other.
Jean-Michel Basquiat went on to be friends with Andy Warhol, and then a pier, with the two collaborating on an entire series. It is worth noting, however, that it was Julian Schnabel who he always wanted to be considered equal to. He is said to have remarked both to friends, and later Schnabel himself, ‘One day I will box with him.’ The image of the two boxing was one used for his exhibition with Warhol, though by having arrived at such a level it can be said he had won the match with Schnabel.
Much of his work has a pathos about it. To some degree this no doubt owes to his childlike scribblings, which are evocative of a vulnerability within you; there is a also a caged desperation.
Where dramatic narrative intersects the lives of great creators it has become unsurprising to also find tragedy there. In the case of Basquiat, he developed a habit of taking cocaine to stay up through the night, painting, only to use heroin to come down and sleep. While he struggled for a period of years with his addiction, drug use ultimately claimed his life.
I consider much of his last work the most eerie but also some of his most interesting. The expressiveness of his early paintings deprives the works of some mystery, at least when juxtaposed with such pieces as ‘Riding With Death’. These paintings seem somehow succinct, as if he’d reduced everything about earlier efforts to a few maxims; they view like haiku.
Modern art critics are starting to find Basquiat’s place in history, though only future artists can ultimately articulate where it exactly lays. From the vantage of cultural literacy (King Hamburger Pimp And) The Sundance Kid admonish you to take time to view some of Basquiat’s work. His catalog is a gift to the living.
-Julian Belvedere of (King Hamburger Pimp And) The Sundance Kid

(King Hamburger Pimp And) The Sundance Kid think you should know about…

Jean-Michel Basquiat is one of the great artists of the latter half of the twentieth century. With over 1,000 paintings and 1,000 drawings (separately), he was extraordinarily prolific. What compounds the astounding volume of his work is that he is also part of the infamous Twenty-Seven Society, having died at the same age as Kurt Cobain and co. He began by doing graffiti under the joint sobriquet SAMO (”same-o”) before painting.

The moniker was a truncated form of ‘same old shit’, which he and an art school friend tagged around SoHo throughout the late seventies and early eighties in a manner anticipatory of Shepard Fairley’s ‘Andre the Giant has a Posse’ stencils, later to be itself reduced to ‘OBEY’. While the tag caught on, Basquiat and friend Al Diaz had a falling out, which in part precipitated him declaring ‘SAMO is dead’ all around SoHo.

Basquiat would overlap with many important cultural touchstones of the 80s. He was featured on NYC public access television show TV Party, hosted by future GQ Style Guy Glenn O’Brien. In part through these avante garde circles he came to be part of the club scene which predominated New York City 80s, even having a trist with a young Madonna and playing in a band with Vincent Gallo. ‘Gray’, as it was known, was named for Gray’s Anatomy, the famous anatomy book, a copy of which his mother gave to him during a childhood hospitalization. He later cited it as an early inspiration to begin drawing.

Indeed, much of his style shows a bare assemblage of the human figure, drawing on pre-civilization cave art for some of his choices, and conjoining them with an extremely literate historicity. Basquiat, of Haitian decent, often features a racial presence in his work which reveals his awareness of blackness as the Other.

Jean-Michel Basquiat went on to be friends with Andy Warhol, and then a pier, with the two collaborating on an entire series. It is worth noting, however, that it was Julian Schnabel who he always wanted to be considered equal to. He is said to have remarked both to friends, and later Schnabel himself, ‘One day I will box with him.’ The image of the two boxing was one used for his exhibition with Warhol, though by having arrived at such a level it can be said he had won the match with Schnabel.

Much of his work has a pathos about it. To some degree this no doubt owes to his childlike scribblings, which are evocative of a vulnerability within you; there is a also a caged desperation.

Where dramatic narrative intersects the lives of great creators it has become unsurprising to also find tragedy there. In the case of Basquiat, he developed a habit of taking cocaine to stay up through the night, painting, only to use heroin to come down and sleep. While he struggled for a period of years with his addiction, drug use ultimately claimed his life.

I consider much of his last work the most eerie but also some of his most interesting. The expressiveness of his early paintings deprives the works of some mystery, at least when juxtaposed with such pieces as ‘Riding With Death’. These paintings seem somehow succinct, as if he’d reduced everything about earlier efforts to a few maxims; they view like haiku.

Modern art critics are starting to find Basquiat’s place in history, though only future artists can ultimately articulate where it exactly lays. From the vantage of cultural literacy (King Hamburger Pimp And) The Sundance Kid admonish you to take time to view some of Basquiat’s work. His catalog is a gift to the living.

-Julian Belvedere of (King Hamburger Pimp And) The Sundance Kid