Jean-Michel Basquiat1960-1988NeoExpressionistBasquiat Trailer

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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.

"Bird on Money," 1981

“Fishing” 1981

Visual vocabulary - markings that recurred in his paintings, such as a crown, which represented him.

-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 oilstick drawing

- a scene observed on holiday in Puerto Rico, where mother was from, and where he also spent time as a child.

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

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

Humidity

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.

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“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.

“Baptism” 1982

“Dog” 1982

“Maid from Olympia” 1982

Basquiat produced an array of work from the overtly expressive to the complicated and mysterious.

“Philistines” 1982

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