Basquiat
Research Paper
BASQUIAT
Fame and recognition are hard to catch. It takes sometimes a lifetime. The audience and the world of art are really hard to convince. Some artists did not even succeed to be recognized during their life, success happened when they died. But it was not the case of Jean Michel Basquiat who was born in 1960 of Haitian and Puerto Rican origin. He started to be interested by art in his early age because her mother brought him to the museum of New York. He encountered success at the age of 20 and died at 27 year old. (Britannica) His life was short such as his work but he succeeded to mark the minds. Why and how did Basquiat have such an impact on the contemporary art despite having a so short career? This essay will point out the evidence of Basquiat’s impact, then it will show his skills to come with a new style of art, finally it will express the impact of Warhol in Basquiat’s world. Evidence of Basquiat’s impact can be found in the number of exhibitions, books, and film about him. Basquiat generated a lot of intention by is work pieces number of exhibitions have been made in his honor. His first show was in 1980 the Mural in group show, by “The Time Square Show,” with Colab and Fashion Moda, in August in New York. It was the first time Basquiat showed his work to an audience, at his real beginning where he was only 20. During his lifetime Basquiat had had 8 exhibitions in major museums and was exposed in about 30 galleries around the world. (Fretz) The amount of shows of which he was the center expresses the greeting that the contemporary art world did to him. This success and regard continued after his death. About 13 major museums around the world dedicate their wall for Basquiat’s retrospective. The first one was the prestigious Whitney Museum of American Art from October 1992 to February 1993. (Fretz) Jean Michel Basquiat had a life extraordinary first by his amount of success then by the shortness of his life. Those facts
BASQUIAT
Fame and recognition are hard to catch. It takes sometimes a lifetime. The audience and the world of art are really hard to convince. Some artists did not even succeed to be recognized during their life, success happened when they died. But it was not the case of Jean Michel Basquiat who was born in 1960 of Haitian and Puerto Rican origin. He started to be interested by art in his early age because her mother brought him to the museum of New York. He encountered success at the age of 20 and died at 27 year old. (Britannica) His life was short such as his work but he succeeded to mark the minds. Why and how did Basquiat have such an impact on the contemporary art despite having a so short career? This essay will point out the evidence of Basquiat’s impact, then it will show his skills to come with a new style of art, finally it will express the impact of Warhol in Basquiat’s world. Evidence of Basquiat’s impact can be found in the number of exhibitions, books, and film about him. Basquiat generated a lot of intention by is work pieces number of exhibitions have been made in his honor. His first show was in 1980 the Mural in group show, by “The Time Square Show,” with Colab and Fashion Moda, in August in New York. It was the first time Basquiat showed his work to an audience, at his real beginning where he was only 20. During his lifetime Basquiat had had 8 exhibitions in major museums and was exposed in about 30 galleries around the world. (Fretz) The amount of shows of which he was the center expresses the greeting that the contemporary art world did to him. This success and regard continued after his death. About 13 major museums around the world dedicate their wall for Basquiat’s retrospective. The first one was the prestigious Whitney Museum of American Art from October 1992 to February 1993. (Fretz) Jean Michel Basquiat had a life extraordinary first by his amount of success then by the shortness of his life. Those facts