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Eroica - Jean-Michel Basquiat
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Jean-Michel Basquiat's 'Eroica' exemplifies his signature blend of graffiti art, primitive motifs, and abstract expressionism. This piece showcases his raw energy and incorporation of text and symbols.
Jean-Michel Basquiat (1960-1988) was an American artist of Haitian and Puerto Rican descent. Basquiat's art emerged from the New York City graffiti subculture of the late 1970s and rapidly gained international recognition during the 1980s Neo-expressionism movement. His work often incorporates a distinctive blend of graffiti art, primitive art motifs, and abstract expressionism. Basquiat's paintings are known for their raw energy, bold colours, and incorporation of text and symbols. His career, though brief, left a significant mark on the art world. He died at the age of 27. 'Eroica' is a characteristic example of Basquiat's style. The canvas is densely filled with layers of imagery, text, and abstract marks. The word 'Eroica' is repeated and crossed out, perhaps alluding to Beethoven's symphony of the same name. The composition includes a variety of motifs, such as figures, diagrams, and seemingly random words, all rendered in a spontaneous, almost frenetic manner. The colour palette is relatively muted, with splashes of orange, red, and blue providing contrast to the predominantly off-white background. The overall effect is one of controlled chaos, reflecting the artist's engagement with themes of identity, culture, and social commentary.
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Eroica - Jean-Michel Basquiat
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From $39.00 USD
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Fine Art Poster / Small Square (30x30 cm) / -
Artist Biography
Jean Michel Basquiat
Basquiat was painting on the streets of lower Manhattan before he was twenty. He started as one half of SAMO, a graffiti duo with Al Diaz that tagged cryptic, sardonic phrases across downtown New York: 'SAMO as an end to mindwash religion, nowhere politics and bogus philosophy.' When the partnership ended, he wrote 'SAMO IS DEAD' on the walls and moved on.
He had no formal art training. He dropped out of school at seventeen and slept on park benches and friends' floors. He sold hand-painted postcards and t-shirts. He gate-crashed a restaurant where the critic Henry Geldzahler was eating with Andy Warhol and handed them a postcard. Warhol bought one. The art world opened.
By twenty-one he was showing in galleries. By twenty-two he was the youngest artist ever invited to Documenta in Kassel. The paintings are dense, layered, furious: text fragments, anatomical drawings, crown symbols, crossed-out words, references to Black history, jazz, boxing, anatomy textbooks, and street signage. They look unplanned but they are not. The crossed-out words are deliberate. He wanted you to read them, then register the erasure.
He and Warhol collaborated on a series of paintings in 1984 and 1985. The relationship was complicated by the art market's tendency to treat Basquiat as Warhol's protege rather than his peer, and by the fact that Warhol, older and more established, got better reviews for the joint work. Basquiat pulled away.
He died of a heroin overdose in 1988, at twenty-seven. His paintings now sell for over 100 million dollars. He would have found that both satisfying and absurd.
He had no formal art training. He dropped out of school at seventeen and slept on park benches and friends' floors. He sold hand-painted postcards and t-shirts. He gate-crashed a restaurant where the critic Henry Geldzahler was eating with Andy Warhol and handed them a postcard. Warhol bought one. The art world opened.
By twenty-one he was showing in galleries. By twenty-two he was the youngest artist ever invited to Documenta in Kassel. The paintings are dense, layered, furious: text fragments, anatomical drawings, crown symbols, crossed-out words, references to Black history, jazz, boxing, anatomy textbooks, and street signage. They look unplanned but they are not. The crossed-out words are deliberate. He wanted you to read them, then register the erasure.
He and Warhol collaborated on a series of paintings in 1984 and 1985. The relationship was complicated by the art market's tendency to treat Basquiat as Warhol's protege rather than his peer, and by the fact that Warhol, older and more established, got better reviews for the joint work. Basquiat pulled away.
He died of a heroin overdose in 1988, at twenty-seven. His paintings now sell for over 100 million dollars. He would have found that both satisfying and absurd.
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