I admit i have changed my opinions on Basquiat :

[BlackDiBiase]

before you add crab in the barrel mentality its not that, i once watched his film ages ago before the jay z dikk riding and aa attention. he got on because he was andy warhols bytch, he ran up on warhol at a restaurant showing him little drawing cards and warhol fell in love with him/them.

on top of that his work look so poorly executed and looked fake, scrappy drawings and words of gibberish. i thought is this the go to guy AA standard of art. well theres not a bigger artist his last piece just moved a few milllion. is he overly idolized, probably but his got some decent shyt.

i honestly thought white people where trolling with this shyt, compared to george condo and murakami and them.

 

[Fandroid]

. he got on because he was andy warhols bytch, he ran up on warhol at a restaurant showing him little drawing cards and warhol fell in love with him/them.

He was already on before then, breh.


Read a proper biography, not a fukking movie.

 

[Black Cobain]

He made music too

 

[BlackDiBiase]

He was already on before then, breh.


Read a proper biography, not a fukking movie.

no he wasnt, i got taught the shyt before i watched as an assignement. smart guy

 

[skokiaan]

.

well that looks shyte

 

[Thatrogueassdiaz]

I think Basquiat is dope

 

[BlackDiBiase]

well that looks shyte

I think Basquiat is dope

i guess thats why its art, to me the aeshetics and technique seem poor but his the number one AA artist, so

 

[mbewane]

Basquiat was on before teaming up with Warhol, hell that's why he was teamed up with him.

He played the art world because he knew damn well being a black kid from the inner city played to his mystique. It's funny because when people criticize Black artists of being "used/fetichized/overrated" by white people (like it was/is the case with Basquiat) they are low-key underestimating the black artist's intelligence and sound quite themselves.

 

[BlackDiBiase]

Basquiat was on before teaming up with Warhol, hell that's why he was teamed up with him.

He played the art world because he knew damn well being a black kid from the inner city played to his mystique. It's funny because when people criticize Black artists of being "used/fetichized/overrated" by white people (like it was/is the case with Basquiat) they are low-key underestimating the black artist's intelligence and sound quite themselves.

dude was a nobody until he got an andy warhol co-sign, i agree with the rest tho.

 

[NoChillJones]

Looking at some of the work youve posted on here.....you would almost have too....

 

[Makavalli]

I dont get it. Not hating on the artsy types but this look like some shyt i see in my son's notebook.
Should i jack my kids shyt and pass it off as mines for bread?

 

[mbewane]

dude was a nobody until he got an andy warhol co-sign, i agree with the rest tho.

He was known as soon as the SAMO phase, and his works were exhibitied in Europe as soon 1981, never mind the US.

He only started collaborating with Wahrol in 85, which is when they did their collaborative work. Basquiat was well established internationally by then. Hell that work was heavilly criticized by critics.

 

[BlackDiBiase]

He was known as soon as the SAMO phase, and his works were exhibitied in Europe as soon 1981, never mind the US.

He only started collaborating with Wahrol in 85, which is when they did their collaborative work. Basquiat was well established internationally by then. Hell that work was heavilly criticized by critics.

 

[mbewane]

I dont get it. Not hating on the artsy types but this look like some shyt i see in my son's notebook.
Should i jack my kids shyt and pass it off as mines for bread?

Try to sell it, you'll find out

 

[BRUHMANE]

i guess thats why its art, to me the aeshetics and technique seem poor but his the number one AA artist, so

As a former art history student I can't take what you're saying seriously bruh no offense.

He was poppin' before Warhol, but you're gonna b poppin' after Warhol no matter who you are, B knew this and went ahead.
His whole aim was about getting noticed, and paying homage to past styles via his own. Look up the NYC expressionists from the 1950s
De Kooning, Pollack, Ernst, Krasner, Mitchell. This is where he got his style, and where he got his mode of expression from.

EDIT*
In his case he flipped these past styles on their collective ear when he starting using his work to express and tell a very exclusive narrative that many people weren't getting at the time.