Jean-Michel Basquiat 1960-1988 NeoExpressionist

1. Jean-Michel Basquiat 1960-1988 NeoExpressionist Basquiat Trailer Interview

2. "Bird on Money," 1981 The painting is an homage to one of Jean-Michel Basquiat's heroes, jazz saxman Charlie Parker. Rather than a conventional portrait, Basquiat portrays Parker as a chicken, or yardbird, which was one of the musician's nicknames. It's painted in a loose, neo-expressionist style the artist helped pioneer in the 1980s.

3. $26,402,500 “Fishing” 1981 -A man with fishing pole, holding up a line with hook and fish. -”Basquiat”barbed-wire halo, painted in bold, black spiky lines overlayed with white oilstickdrawing - a scene observed on holiday in Puerto Rico, where mother was from, and where he also spent time as a child. Visual vocabulary - markings that recurred in his paintings, such as a crown, which represented him.

4. “Scull” 1981 Jay Z raps "Basquiats, Warhols serving as my muses"

5. Visual Poetry Definition: poetry or art in which the visual arrangement of text, images, and symbols is important in conveying the intended effect of the work. Untitled (1981), a painting of a haloed, black-headed man with a bright red skeletal body, depicted amid the artist's signature scrawls, was sold by Robert Lehrman for $16.3 million

6. Warhol had long fascinated Basquiat, and he read about Warhol often. During the late 1970s, Basquiat sold T-shirts and postcards decorated with his own designs, becoming a well-known figure, and indeed Warhol himself actually bought one of his postcards then. Humidity

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8. “Profit I” is one of Basquiat’s most masterful works. -Mixes the historical painting with urban graffiti to create a heroic character that is part self-portrait and part voodoo shaman.

9. “Baptism” 1982

10. “Dog” 1982

11. Basquiat produced an array of work from the overtly expressive to the complicated and mysterious. “Maid from Olympia” 1982

12. “Philistines” 1982

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