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

[MollyGalaga]

at the Basquiat hate in here

Uncultured

Basquiat is KING
but everybody is a critic when its the easiest job to have

 

[Michael's Black Son]

Money laundering

basically

 

[concise]

Thought they said Jean-Michel Basquiat was half Cuban Puerto-Rican and half Haitian

Anyway his shyt always looked weird to me but I'm no art connaisseur So more power to him

Edit: meant Boriqua

He was. Still American made and American raised.

 

[KinksandCoils]

Breh drew like a 5 yr old on purpose. I used to not like his work but the more I see it, it does look dope

 

[KinksandCoils]

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.

Most people who are famous worked to be famous. Minus heirs and some criminals who got famous off of crimes

 

[Ohene]

cool painting though

Breh drew like a 5 yr old on purpose. I used to not like his work but the more I see it, it does look dope

yup. i cant speak on the valuations an all that but it looks dope. it is what it is
reminds me of african paintings

 

[rapbeats]

I was big into art history all this 20th century shyt is trash

i agree with you on a lot of this. But i feel the same away about some of the historical pieces they deem to be great. Which is a lot of popularity about it being great. meaning. you were taught "hey this is great." so when you see it. you assume It was great. You're not sure if it's actually great and pleasing to your eyes or if the actual artist has done some ground breaking technique to create it which ushered in a new style of painting or not a lot of times. sure the real historians know these details. but some of these paintings are just paintings people have called great just cause. and thats what we were taught. but in reality to the eye they are not and their is no ground breaking artistic technique used to create them.

But lets address this

Now look at the bottom of the painting. not the framed portion. but right above it. do you see all those colors at the bottom in the background? now you see the blue is technically the main background to most of the painting. yet in the skull you see the colors at the bottom present. So the question is this. Did he paint a bunch of colors in the background first, especially up towards where the skull would be. then put the skull on top of it. then made sure not to paint the blue beyond that point so the background could seep thru the skull? or did he painted it all in the for ground and it justs looks like the bottom part is in the background when in reality thats the way he painted the edges. even if that were the case. who thinks of painting the edges with similar colors you're going to use on the main piece in the middle/center? thats also a technique. lastly, he gave you a little color palette on the bottom right letting you know "these are the colors I'm going to use. those are also seemingly in the background and barely are let out to be seen by those that may catch them. How much is such a technique worth?

Lastly, if you were beyond rich. the color palettes he chose for this painting can look great in a lot of different scenarios.

 

[rapbeats]

i need to draw something

you do. but remember odds are you wont reap the benefits of your art work. By the time your art blows up. you're probably dead and gone. and some person for some odd reason deems it hot. you may have came up with a new technique but only this guy/lady caught it. and started pushing it as great. she/he is in the well to do society. so that person can push the agenda that your work is "GREAT". Then it blows up. you nor your family would make a dime off of that painting. lol. cold world. now if your family is smart, they will make that documentary about you and a movie/write a book or three about you so they can get a smidget of $$$ from your art.

 

[You Win Perfect]

I remember going to his exhibit and I was like It was from that day on I realized some art is pretentious and people put value to whatever they want

just a bunch of rich people with nothing else to do with their money but just to flex on folks.

 

[GoPro]

just a bunch of rich people with nothing else to do with their money but just to flex on folks.

Basically, on some Stewart 'Look what I can do!' shyt.

 

[mbewane]

He was famous for like 2-3 years or something before he died. The VAST majority of his life he lived in abandoned buildings in NY. Im VERY familiar with Basqiuat. Stop assuming people don't know shyt because they don't agree with the general cac narrative.

Just because your cac overseers share an opinion doesn't mean you have to follow it. I understand Basquiat is a highly regarded artist in the art world, but i personally feel his art is highly overrated.

And thats the beauty of an opinion. Everyone is allowed to have their own. Keep your sweeping condescending statements about the Coli to yourself because someone's OPINION doesn't jive with yours or the general narrative.

It's not an opinion of facts, you stated this :

Exactly. Dude was a homeless drug addict and no one gave him bread. Now he's dead everyone wants to act as if he's the God of the canvas.


The reality is his paintings are only valuable because he's dead. The art community is a sadistic group of people.

Which is false, as you acknowledge yourself in the bolded in the quote above. At least be coherent.

 

[Hiphoplives4eva]

It's not an opinion of facts, you stated this :



Which is false, as you acknowledge yourself in the bolded in the quote above. At least be coherent.

No, your being purposefully obtuse to make an incorrect point.

You think this Asian billionaire is paying 110 million for this painting if BAsquiat was alive. No.

Secondly, Basquiat only become wealthy near the end of his life because one wealthy cac that took a liking to his work began to promote him. Those same art gallery's that shyt on him began to jerk him off. It's pathetic because his style never changed, but it took some rich liberal cacs to give him legitimacy. It it wasn't for those cacs, you wouldn't be in here so vehemently defending him because he just be another nikka from Harlem that knew how to paint.


At the end of the day, the art world is full of shyt.

 

[Rozay Oro]

I have really come to appreciate basquiat lately, especially seeing as how i was somewhat unknowingly inspired by him.

i never realized the way i would draw was so similar to him

 

[mbewane]

No, your being purposefully obtuse to make an incorrect point.

You think this Asian billionaire is paying 110 million for this painting if BAsquiat was alive. No.

Secondly, Basquiat only become wealthy near the end of his life because one wealthy cac that took a liking to his work began to promote him. Those same art gallery's that shyt on him began to jerk him off. It's pathetic because his style never changed, but it took some rich liberal cacs to give him legitimacy. It it wasn't for those cacs, you wouldn't be in here so vehemently defending him because he just be another nikka from Harlem that knew how to paint.


At the end of the day, the art world is full of shyt.

Breh, you said his art only got value after he died bu at the same time said he was famous for 2-3 years, and here again you're saying he became wealthy "near the end of his life" (as in, BEFORE he died). You're contradicting yourself. You hate him and are mad for wahetever reason, fine, but at least be coherent

 

[Citi Trends]

dont laugh at me u dikkmuncher