Andy Warhol Neo Expressionism

Throughout much of Modernism many artists were influenced and informed by the work of exotic regions throughout the world, more specifically Africa. African Art would influence much of the Modern Movements from the latter part of the Nineteenth and the beginning of the Twentieth Centuries. Much is said of the artists within the Harlem Renaissance, and how it directly reflects the influence of Africana upon their art. Often times, this work is neglected to be considered Modern if not in specialized selections of course throughout many of today's higher institutions of learning. However, thus being said, Aaron Douglas, often considered the pioneer of African American Modern Art, would bring this notion to the

There have been different art forms that have come and go over the course of time. Hence I will discuss, two significant movements like Post-impressionism and Pop art. Two important artists from these movements are, Vincent Van Gogh and Andy Warhol. There are many differences and very few similarities between these two movements and artists, although more differences. Van Gogh is one of the most captivating artists of post-impressionism. . Throughout his career Van Gogh has painted many works. One of those magnificent paintings is “Starry Night” by Vincent Van Gogh. In the other hand we will discuss one of the popular paintings “ Gold Marilyn” by Andy Warhol. Warhol is also the most famous of the Pop Artists and played a major role in making the art movement popular.

Although Basquiat’s mother Matilde was the driving force behind the artist at a young age, it was his life experiences which shaped his personality and in turn his artwork. The first shift in focus for Basquiat occurred in 1968 when he was struck by an automobile and injured. While recovering, his mother gifts him a copy of Gray’s Anatomy and here is where he takes special interest in anatomy which is later reflected in his pieces. At age 15, Basquiat runs away from home after his parents had been divorced and his mother was in and out of mental institutions. Basquiat led a life on the streets of New York, sleeping on park benches in Tompkins Square Park and eating what he could find. Around this time, in 1976, he and Al Diaz create a fictional character by the name of SAMO (Same Old Shit) and the two began to spread witty philosophical messages throughout the Lower East Side of Manhattan. The SAMO days begin to build a name for Basquiat and, along with his ingenious and suave personality, he slowly integrates in the art scene of New York.

“Between 1920-1930 an outburst of creativity among African Americans occurred in every aspect of art.” (historyoftheharlemrenaissance.weebly.com) Due to all of the new African American members living in New York, it sparked a want to become a new type of African American. African Americans wanted to become more intelligent and better in every way. This want for a better quality of life greatly impacted the different types of art. There was paintings, dances, and even theatrical performances. “The names of the artists who blossomed during the Harlem Renaissance era included Aaron Douglas, Lois Mailou Jones, Jacob Lawrence, Palmer C. Hayden, Laura Wheeler Waring, Meta Fuller, Archibald Motley, Augusta Savage, William Johnson, Charles Alston and photographer James Van Der Zee.” (www.american-historama.org) Aaron Douglas was a well known artist that created murals and made many other artistic contributions that still influence people

So within the context of the movie Basquait the story emerges of a Haitian-American kid, who has 'seen the streets' and lived on the hard side of the tracks. Carrying his copy of 'Greys Anatomy' he dissects the streets, dissects and illustrates what he finds beneath and this dissects society and his own fractured place in it. His art even looks a bit like the anatomical drawings of Greys Anatomy and it is this ferocious dissection that formed the basis of a lot of his work. Although Mayer said “Basquiat speaks articulately while dodging the full impact of clarity like a matador. We can read his pictures without strenuous effort—the words, the images, the colors and the construction—but we cannot quite fathom the point they belabor” it is maybe through the lens of thinking about his background as a child who had a challenging childhood that we can figure out what was going on (2205 50). His painting of an African-American policeman with its huge size and broken body may give a further clue with the cultural / race identity confusion of his childhood in the 1960's and 1970's very evident. It is these pressures combined with the pressures of the corporate money-focused art-as-currency/investment discourse that must surely impact on an artist such as Basquiat: painting from within the establishment and making money from it a mechanism that can only

When Jean-Michel Basquiat was invigorating the oppressed art movement of street art, Madonna was an upcoming singer. After a couple of years, and while he was creating amongst, with and for the LA and New York’s art elite, Madonna was still an unknown but aspiring entertainer and they were together.

Douglas believed that we had to grasp African art and embrace it in modern American art. Many of his works contributed to the Harlem Renaissance era. This period was when artists were familiarizing the world with their capabilities as African American artists. It later became known as the “new negro” movement. During this time, Douglas developed a signature style that fused together African art with modernism. He integrated elements of art deco as well as influences of Egyptian wall paintings into his work. Its evident in his work because his figures often looked like silhouettes. His utilization of European-American cultures reminds people that conventional can be something

His mother, who was something of an amateur artist herself, frequently took him to visit New York’s many art museums, and even enrolled him in a children’s program at the Brooklyn Museum of Art. Basquiat would later credit his mother with getting him started as an artist. Basquiat’s first artistic works were cartoon drawings, often of characters from Alfred Hitchcock films. Basquiat would sit beside his mother at night, drawing his cartoon sketches while she worked on her own designs.” From what I have researched I have learned that Basquiat and his father did not have a good relationship.

Jean-Michel Basquiat emerged from the punk scene in New York as a street-smart graffiti artist. He successfully crossed over his downtown origins to the international art gallery circuit. Basquiat’s work is one of the few examples of how an early 1980’s American graffiti-based could become a fully recognized artist. Despite his work’s unstudied appearance, Basquiat very skillfully and purposefully brought together in his art a host of disparate traditions, practices and styles to create a unique kind of visual collage. His work is an example of how American artists of the 1980’s could reintroduce the human figure in their work after the wide success of minimalism and conceptualism.

Art has evolved and regenerated itself many times during our human existence. These differences are defined through changes in styles under various theories. During the nineteenth and early twentieth century, a style known as Expressionism became popular. During this movement the artists were trying to use their artwork as a tool of expression toward life. It was mainly dominant in the nonrepresentational arts, such as abstract visual arts and music. It also was probably one of the most difficult movements to understand because the whole point of the piece lay within the artist. Not only was it a movement, it defined the act of art as a whole. From the beginning of time, each work of art, excluding replicas, show a way of expressing

Jean Michael Basquiat was an African American Painter part of the Neo- Expressionism movement and was born in Brooklyn, New York in 1960. Coming from the “punk” and “graffiti” scene in New York, Basquiat has now become one of the most celebrated African American Painters in the Neo- Expressionism movement. Basquiat’s work is considered “unstudied” because he didn’t go to school for art. Even though the appearance of his work seems to be unstudied he skillfully created collages using a lot of urban influences and African-Caribbean tradition. One of my favorite Basquiat paintings is untitled and was painted (1982). In this untitled painting Basquiat uses images that are often associated with African art, a skull, a bone, and an arrow but Basquiat modernizes the images in his Neo- Expressionist style using thickly applied paint and rapidly rendered subjects.

Basquiat emerged in the period between Black Power and the contemporary scene, when entering the art world was still almost impossible for African American artists despite the passage of the Civil Rights Acts. Basquiat wanted to articulate the new position in which desegregated African Americans found themselves as inner cities crumbled and white flight accelerated. Even as laws prohibited intentional racism, racialization of American life continued. Basquiat attempted to bridge the post-soul aesthetic of hip hop's graffiti artists with the irony of contemporary American and African American art. Basquiat's deployment of irony, however, differed significantly from other African American artists. Not only did he question the unconscious racialization

Jean-Michel Basquiat appears from the "Punk" locus in New York City as a gritty, common sense, spray-painting artist who victoriously changes sides from his "downtown" radix to a worldwide art museum circuit. He's thoughtful, generous, quiet, and can be passive aggressive to people. He would anonymous spray paint legends, signed “SAMO,” all over New York City. He would paint on any surfaces he found around him. For example: boards, walls, canvases, on the dress of his girlfriend, and even on his girlfriend paintings.Basquiat was few months homelessness and that he lives in a cardboard. Jean strays from his middle class residence and went to a world of his own. He was an enigma even to his own girlfriend Gina. He was a drug user and mostly focused on the way he felt, or didn't feel.Gina finds him nearly dead after an overdose of drugs. He was in a mental land of his own. Jean was very sensitive to criticism and racism towards him. He feels like people were trying to use him for their own purposes. Basquiat wants to go to Hawaii because the film would shows waves and surfers in the sky above Manhattan.

Abstract Expressionism is making its comeback within the art world. Coined as an artist movement in the 1940’s and 1950’s, at the New York School, American Abstract Expressionist began to express many ideas relevant to humanity and the world around human civilization. However, the subject matters, contributing to artists, were not meant to represent the ever-changing world around them. Rather, how the world around them affected the artist themselves. The works swayed by such worldly influences, become an important article within the artists’ pieces. Subjectively, looking inward to express the artist psyche, artists within the Abstract Expressionism movement became a part of their paintings. Making the paintings more of a representation

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