I've seen the movie made of his life and I have read his bios before. He seemed fascinating and complex, plagued with a lot of demons. I really want to learn more about his work, but quite honestly, I find his work too dismal and chaotic to even comprehend.
Does anyone understand where Basquiat was going with his work? What messages (if any) was he trying to convey?
2006-12-23 07:58:11 · 2 answers · asked by M2 3 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Visual Arts ➔ Painting
he was a street artist when he became the darling of the neuvo set in New York/LA there was lot of iconography and angst plus lots of paint as a needle user, and he painted a bit like he lived which was very disjointed trying to understand the works of many of the people who become famous overnight can be difficult because they themselves have a hard if not impossible time speaking to the work and its influences in many cases because they are basically outsider artists with no training and Little understanding of art history and their place in it it is hard for them to do anything but just paint which is what they are supposed to do anyway however when the work is disjointed and unusual like his work then people do stretch for understanding. Get i touch with Dharma Inc of Taos New Mexico and ask for Tom He owns the largest private collection of Jeans work tat I am aware of maybe he can shed some more light on it. I do know that like Andy Warhol that he was a manufactured artist in terms of the media hype and that in and of itself making believing everything you hear abut the work suspect people made million's off his work once he was "made" in the art mags and art world
2006-12-23 14:00:01 · answer #1 · answered by doc 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
the way i see it, basquiat explains who he is in his following quote, "I don't think about art when i'm working. I try to think about life." why should anyone's views on life need a defense?
2006-12-23 22:45:51 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋