Jean-Michel Basquiat: 10 famous works, commented and analyzed
Jean-Michel Basquiat was a notorious North American artist who became a great influence in the world of painting and a true pop icon.
As a teenager, he began his career as a graffiti artist as part of the SAMO duo, in New York. Logo ganhou popularidade e seus neo-expressionist paintings, crossed by political and social issues, conquering or public foram.
It gives art from the great museums and international leilões, to the work and life of Basquiat são inigualáveis. Check, below, an analysis of 10 famous paintings by the painter.
1. Ironia do Policial Negro (1981)
One of the most famous works of Basquiat, Ironia do Policial Negro carrega mensagens sociais evident. Here, there is no subtle message with no hint: the painter is harsh criticism of racist practices that vigoravam (and ainda vigoram) us the United States.
Black and filho of immigrants, they have not been able to "stick their finger on it" and confront North American society with their faults and preconceptions.
Or quadro em análise, which combines graffiti and expressionist painting, presents an individual without a center. Or seu chapéu de him, who assembles himself to a gaiola, or identifies as an agent of the Polícia.
In the United States of America, like in other countries, the police forces are known for their brutality, especially as black citizens. A duality of parents and the violence of the authority have been denounced in massa in recent years as a movement Black Lives Matter (Black Lives Importam).
I did not start from the 80s, Basquiat was alerting for these questões, wondering why would a black homem join a racist cop.
In this case, it is seen as another form of domination and oppression. Isso fica explicit com a palavra "pawn"(peão, somebody that is manipulated) I do not direct lower edge.
2. Pássaro no Dinheiro (1981)
A work of Jean-Michel Basquiat and crossed by elements of Afro-American culture and personalities of the movement two direitos civis.
Pássaro no Dinheiro uma tribute to musician Charlie Parker, um two serious idols of him. Or saxophonist and jazz composer, who was known as yardbird (pássaro), is represented as a bird.
No box, there is a representation of a cemetery and the words "To die"(to die). Parker, assim like Basquiat, levou a short life, marked hair succession and hair alcohol and drug use.
There is, clearly, an identification between the stories of both, something that is confirmed by the plaque that says "Green wood", à esquerda. This local treatise where the painter was growing and saw to be buried.
Stunned by music, Jean-Michel played the same band as conductor Vincent Gallo. I think that the way the images are organized was not intended to represent or own some jazz.
3. Sem title (Caveira) (1981)
Basquiat has several representations of caveiras and human skulls, among which this one stands out. During childhood, an artist was run over and broke, or carried out an operation.
During the time of recovery, the body of anatomy awakened or interested you in the detailed hairs of the human body.
The painting, or the face, seems to be made up of remnants, parts that we do not combine like others, perhaps as they were assembled.
There is also representation of interior and exterior do skull, joined by points, as estivessem sewn um ao outro. You can also enter the image for the metro map of New York.
O quadro combines the Haitian cultural heritage and the porto-riches of the artist as the urban charater of his work (or face lembra or self-portraits of anonymous graffiti artists).
Or its meaning continues to be a mystery: the letters don't seem to be the code, rabbis that we can't decipher. It is evident, however, that despite two living hearts, there is a dysphoric and disturbing load.
4. Fishing (1981)
Fishing is one of the most popular graffiti works by Basquiat, where it is evident or neo-expressionist style do painter. Let us notice the energy, the living hearts, the quick brushstrokes and the large-sized figure.
No center, is a home with thorns in the head of the head, that carries a cana near the coasts and safely a peixe pela linha. The white traces show ainda or your skeleton, or interior of your body.
This phase of your artistic production, to influence gives street artAinda is very present. The painting was painted at the time when Basquiat had finished bartering the abandoned goods from the cloth.
5. Deus, Lei (1981)
Embora this seja um drawing with pencils, no sheet of paper, it is not about a sketch: it is a work itself. With clear influences of graffiti and street art, Basquiat questions the traditional concepts of painting in the world of "fine arts".
We are looking for more a creation through the qual o artist denounce social inequalities, to injustice and poverty. Ainda during his adolescence, or a painter with a couple of graffiti SAMO, as a friend Al Diaz.
OR tag sIt ignited "same old shit" (always the same merda) and was used to support messages of rebellion and indignation against the city. East subversive character He continued to be present for a long time since his work and it is evident that it does not appear in the analysis.
Highly symbolic, it is portrayed by a balance, an image universally associated with justice. At the bottom of each two articles, the words "Deus" and "Lei" are written as follows.
Not the center, on top of both, is a digit, a symbol broadly linked to or dinheiro. A position of prominence is not by chance: the painter wanted to show corruption and gain that prevailed. In this way, sublinha that here that move or world é or dinheiro, influencing our notions of law and religion.
6. Choirs (Liquid Weight) (1981)
Quem conhece um little of the work of Basquiat knows that a coroa de três pontas It is an element that repeats itself forever.
Normally lida as a symbol of power and wealth, linked to white royalty, the ganha another conotação in his paintings of him. In this context, it can be understood as um symbol of authority or artistic value.
Or quadro has several coroed heads that seem to be inside a pilha de caixas. Uma delas, contudo, carrega a coroa de espinhos, numa reference to Christ, which refers to the idea of sacrifice.
As back arrows peel cloth, in various directions, represent Oxóssi (Òsóòsì), a divindade da religião iorubá that governs caça. This seems to be a metaphor for Basquiat's incessant search for success.
"Liquid weight" is something that is customary to be announced to us, determining the relationship between the quantity and the monetary value of some cost. Em Choirs, or subtitle confirms that this work is a commentary on life and, above all, art.
In his vision of him, he must sacrifice himself to achieve fame. Here, there seems to be a reflection of the artist, on his own work and course. Fica patent to impressão that it is "selling", that virou uma mercadoria also.
7. Sem title (Boxer) (1982)
O box is a theme that arises several times in the artist's work, being portrayed in the famous photographic session that Basquiat has with Andy Warhol.
Em Sem title (Boxer), We see a big and muscular homem, whose body occupies almost all fabric. To his physical strength and inegável, like muscles sublimated by white lines.
You arms not high suggestrem commemoration, vitória. Contudo, with a chorus of thorns in his head, he goes to the idea of sofrimento, confirmed by a face that is disfigured.
É Possibly that Basquiat identifies himself with this figure. African American, immigrant filho and part of the labor class, or artist who struggled very much to conquer everything or what you have.
For this reason, he may see himself as a boxer, willing to lift pancades of life for success. No box, despite racism of the time, we reign black homens like Joe Louis and Muhammad Ali, idols of the painter.
Also, the dated and upright figures cannot also be a reference to a civil movement that claimed or black empowerment.
8. Head (1982)
Em HeadWe are de novo or interested in Basquiat for human anatomy, which is translated into many designs of bodies and skulls. The work is 1.69m high, at the height of a common home, giving the feeling that it is a real individual.
Assume-I know I'm a self-portrait, something that seems to be confirmed hairs with tranças penteados for or side, as a customary artist to use.
O rosto, divided no meio, translates contrasting emotions: from one side, it seems to sorrir and from another, carries an expression of sadness. São also evident as African heranças culturais that is manifested in the artist's work.
9. Fish Dispenser (1984)
As Basquiat são's paintings, many times, reflexes da popular culture em who lived. This work, like others, or artist presents an everyday theme, something that the public knew to be. It is about a reference year twelve Pez, a very popular brand in the United States.
Part of this succession is deviated to plastic packaging (dispensers) in the shape of bugs and characters from animation films, which were only sold. A attractive image of cativava crianças e adults, increasing as brand sales.
Here, the packaging is shaped like a dinosaur, an extinct animal that barely continues to exist in our imagination. The creature uses a coroa, which can be interpreted as a subversive symbol for the class and poverty.
In this way, we can think that it is about a criticizeconsumer society, associated with financial oppression of the most disadvantaged classes.
10. Cavalgando com a Morte (1988)
Cavalgando com a Morte Integra to the last exhibition of the painter, who saw to die not the same year.
Long lasting explosive energy and vibrant cores of the past, or quadro tem just a neutral background where two figures stand out.
The theme of death is represented in a period in which Basquiat raised his particularly destructive lifestyle, due to the consumption of cocaine and heroin.
Quase prophetic, or artist was really walking to the end and ended up dying of overdose. The work shows that he is still saved, he is aware of what he is living.
Na painting, it is also notorious to influence two great mestres, overcoat Duas Allegorias da Invejaby Leonardo da Vinci.
About Jean-Michel Basquiat
Jean-Michel Basquiat (December 22, 1960 - August 12, 1988) was a North American artist and one of the most emblematic figures of his time.
Starting his career as a graffiti artist, as SAMO pseudonym, his work began to call attention to the streets of New York.
With multifaceted talents, he excelled in the arts, working with painting, television, music and cinema. O seu magnetismo e a força de suas criações tornaram Basquiat um ícone. Thus, your close relationships with some celebrities will also contribute to or status.
It is worth honoring your great friend and artistic partnership with Andy Warhol, or nome major da pop art. It is proven that the state of chemical dependency of the painter who depois da morte do amigo, in 1987.
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