Basquiat's 'Untitled' Painting Sells For $110 Million, The Most Ever Paid For An American Artwork

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JahBuhLun said:
Bruh, I have 2 Associate's Degrees in Art and a Bachelor's in Graphic Design. I've taken more Art History classes than most on here combined, so there isn't a period or style of art that I haven't had to study. I worked at the Nelson-Atkins Museum, considered one of the best in the country. In art, there's no such thing as better because all art is subjective, I was showing you the influences on Basquiat's style. That primitive, abstract expressionist style that artists in the 70s-80s were doing and getting rich off of it.

My main point about Basquiat was that he was moreso a product of the hype machine and how he came along at the right time, he was a novelty to white people in the art scene, he was just as interested in making music as he was art. A writer for an art magazine pushed Basquiat into spotlight:

Jean-Michel Basquiat :: The Radiant Child by Rene Ricard

It's a long ass article, but just skim through it, and you'll see how Basquiat was able to blow up like he did. You can be the wackest artist, but if someone writing like that on your behalf, no way you wouldn't succeed.
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I've read extensively on Basquiat, breh. He was a scene kid who dabbled in multiple scenes in the best city in the world...but that is true of most of the musicians and artist of that time period. I'm suppose to be mad that Basquiat used charm and ingenuity to get on? Where were all the other people doing records with Rammellzee, bombing trains and then holding his own with obnoxious white kids in downtown Manhattan? You can't divorce personality from the art.
 
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JahBuhLun said:
Bruh, I have 2 Associate's Degrees in Art and a Bachelor's in Graphic Design. I've taken more Art History classes than most on here combined, so there isn't a period or style of art that I haven't had to study. I worked at the Nelson-Atkins Museum, considered one of the best in the country. In art, there's no such thing as better because all art is subjective, I was showing you the influences on Basquiat's style. That primitive, abstract expressionist style that artists in the 70s-80s were doing and getting rich off of it.

My main point about Basquiat was that he was moreso a product of the hype machine and how he came along at the right time, he was a novelty to white people in the art scene, he was just as interested in making music as he was art. A writer for an art magazine pushed Basquiat into spotlight:

Jean-Michel Basquiat :: The Radiant Child by Rene Ricard

It's a long ass article, but just skim through it, and you'll see how Basquiat was able to blow up like he did. You can be the wackest artist, but if someone writing like that on your behalf, no way you wouldn't succeed.
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What people also consider to be 'art' is usually not meant to be 'art' in the modern sense especially in ancient historical pieces westerners love to unearth etc..
 
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K.O.N.Y said:
Jean-Michel-Basquiat-Mecca-4-6m-4.47m.jpg


Fam this shyt got me weak:mjlol::pachaha::dead:
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Basquiat was on that narcotic & it shows in art:russ:nikka please

i'm convicted that dude painting while the needle was still in:mjlol:u nikkas can't be serious.. Art suppose to provoke feeling n shyt but the only feeling i get is that a nikka was high off china white & was painting n shyt:leostare::skip::russ:
 
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JahBuhLun said:
Bruh, I have 2 Associate's Degrees in Art and a Bachelor's in Graphic Design. I've taken more Art History classes than most on here combined, so there isn't a period or style of art that I haven't had to study. I worked at the Nelson-Atkins Museum, considered one of the best in the country. In art, there's no such thing as better because all art is subjective, I was showing you the influences on Basquiat's style. That primitive, abstract expressionist style that artists in the 70s-80s were doing and getting rich off of it.

My main point about Basquiat was that he was moreso a product of the hype machine and how he came along at the right time, he was a novelty to white people in the art scene, he was just as interested in making music as he was art. A writer for an art magazine pushed Basquiat into spotlight:

Jean-Michel Basquiat :: The Radiant Child by Rene Ricard

It's a long ass article, but just skim through it, and you'll see how Basquiat was able to blow up like he did. You can be the wackest artist, but if someone writing like that on your behalf, no way you wouldn't succeed.
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I think too many of of you are not giving Basquiat credit for his own fame. As if he just came out the street and cacs instantly loved him.


Basquiat hustled HARD for his fame, he wanted to be famous. Everything was planned.
 
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Poitier said:
I've read extensively on Basquiat, breh. He was a scene kid who dabbled in multiple scenes in the best city in the world...but that is true of most of the musicians and artist of that time period. I'm suppose to be mad that Basquiat used charm and ingenuity to get on? Where were all the other people doing records with Rammellzee, bombing trains and then holding his own with obnoxious white kids in downtown Manhattan? You can't divorce personality from the art.
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You're absolutely correct, he was a hustler in his own right. And out of all the taggers in NYC at the time, his personality and charm probably stood out the most. You don't hook up with a Madonna and end up in a Blondie video without having a type of appeal that is attractive to the majority. The ingenuity part is a little hard for me to digest from a painter's standpoint, but I guess I would have to know what you meant by ingenuity. The artwork itself, not so much, the way he got on, definitely.
 
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Concerning VIolence said:
I think too many of of you are not giving Basquiat credit for his own fame. As if he just came out the street and cacs instantly loved him.


Basquiat hustled HARD for his fame, he wanted to be famous. Everything was planned.
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facts..cuz every successful black man needs a white Savior..:mjgrin:
homie went from eating Cheetos for dinner..to wearing Armani suits..but we cant give him credit :snoop:
 
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Concerning VIolence said:
I think too many of of you are not giving Basquiat credit for his own fame. As if he just came out the street and cacs instantly loved him.


Basquiat hustled HARD for his fame, he wanted to be famous. Everything was planned.
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He hustled no doubt, but there's a difference between hood famous and world wide, white folks know you famous. That only happens when white writers and critics push your shyt into the mainstream consciousness of white people who love what is considered new and different. White people loved him, but if 3 or 4 other Black artists were doing the same thing at the same time in the same area, he would not have gotten the hype that he did, because he wouldn't be unique.
 
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