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Red Man - Jean-Michel Basquiat
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A 1982 Neo-Expressionist work by Jean-Michel Basquiat, featuring a central red figure surrounded by iconic motifs including the crown and aircraft.
Jean-Michel Basquiat produced Red Man in 1982, a period during which his work gained significant visibility within the New York art scene. The composition features a central, abstracted figure rendered in shades of red, set against a muted, ochre-toned background. Basquiat employs a raw, gestural application of paint, characteristic of his approach to the canvas as a site for both visual and textual information.
The work incorporates various motifs that recur throughout Basquiat's oeuvre, including the crown, simplified vehicle outlines, and an aircraft silhouette. These elements are not arranged in a traditional narrative structure. Instead, they function as semiotic markers, reflecting the artist's interest in urban environments, social hierarchies, and the commodification of culture. The presence of the crown, a recurring symbol in his paintings, suggests themes of power and authority, often juxtaposed with the vulnerability of the central figure.
Basquiat's technique involves the layering of oilstick and acrylic, creating a surface that appears both spontaneous and calculated. The lines are direct and unrefined, echoing the aesthetic of street art and graffiti that informed his early practice as SAMO. The text elements, including the repeated word 'BOARD', add a rhythmic quality to the composition, further complicating the relationship between image and language. By stripping away traditional perspective, Basquiat forces the viewer to engage with the canvas as a flat, dense field of signs. This piece captures the energy of the early 1980s art world, where the boundaries between high art and street culture were frequently blurred. The work remains a primary example of his ability to synthesise disparate visual languages into a cohesive, albeit challenging, visual statement.
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Museum-grade giclée on FSC-certified archival matte paper, with framed and canvas options.
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Red Man - Jean-Michel Basquiat
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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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