Basquiat Grey's Anatomy

The dark blue left eye and light blue right tells me that Pablo Picasso may have used her actual eye color. Her body is almost as if she had her back to Picasso and turning her torso toward him; such as in most contrapposto art. In the original sketch you can clearly see her arms and the detail of her body. She is not looking back at Picasso, but instead looking toward the opening curtain. The hair of the young lady is also more visible as it drapes down her back. By repositioning her arm and adding the mask he completely changed her appearance, not only in her face but her body as well. Picasso gave her a double point of view, as you look at her nose and the angles it provides. The hand under the chin gives it an almost claw like feature, with what seems to be her fingers going to her eye to her the opposite side of the chin. With the sharp angles and mask and all the distortion it would be difficult to truly see just the young lady. It is almost as if she is shards of glass pieced together to make a

“Basquiat, The Radiant Child” is a documentary about a young artist of the early 2000’s. This young artist left home to begin his journey; he started out as a bum with nothing and became a street artist. Obviously, Basquiat was very driven by his work otherwise he wouldn’t have taken such a big risk. For this reason, many people were inspired by him and loved what he was doing. I however wasn’t a big fan of his. Throughout the documentary his friends and other artist talk about how he would pretty much mooch off of other people; although his friends said it in a nicer way. He even told his girlfriend that he couldn’t work because he didn’t like how people treated him, so she had to pay for their rent on her own. I personally felt like this

The similarities, and differences, between Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn’s Anatomy of Dr. Tulp (1632) and Thomas Eakins’ The Agnew Clinic (1889) are both uncanny and unprecedented. Painted in 1630’s Amsterdam during the Dutch Baroque period, Rembrandt sought to preserve the rare occasion in which a real human body was used as an academic tool in order to prove anatomy theories. On the contrary, Eakins piece was painted in 19th century America during the realist movement to memorialize a retiring professor. However, it is their similarities that make them comparable; they were both commissioned by academic institutions, they both depict a surgery in progress, they both celebrate the careers of notable

Perhaps the most technically impressive aspect of the painting is its remarkable three-dimensionality. Rembrandt is well known for his strikingly accurate portrayal of human shape and form, and this painting lives up to such reputation. With the use of oil paint, he was able to carefully and selectively layer color to create an astonishing representation of the human figure. The most alluring aspect of the piece, in terms of modeling technique, is the face. It contains so much detail; it is hard to believe this painting was done by hand. From the light, wispy texture of the facial hair to the subtle wrinkles surrounding the eyes, attention to detail is what sets this portrait far above many others. Rembrandt’s playful chiaroscuro on the nose and right hand truly give the piece a sense of depth, and the painterly quality of the piece produces a soft and elegant look. Also present within the face is the famous Rembrandt triangle. The result of a specific lighting technique frequently used by Rembrandt, a small triangle is formed underneath the eyes. It is present under the left eye in Marten’s portrait, which gives his face a more natural look. Another technique that intensifies the three-dimensionality of the visible body parts is the use of

the rest of the art world. He was a very social man. He was social with his good friends. He

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.

In the 1980’s the art world was gifted with the artist Jean michel basquiat. Basquiat, a man who lived two contrasting lives as street artist and “fine artist” in the art punk movement of the 1980’s. His work as a street artist was full of poetic and provocative messages painted in the streets of Manhattan New York, and his work as a “fine artist” did the same on gigantic canvases with looming figures in bold colours. Regardless of this dichotomy, his work in both of these practices has the ability to bring light to issues he and many others were facing and are still facing now. In particular, Basquiat’s work brought light to his personal experience with racism and struggle with otherness in and outside of the brutal art world. The next paragraphs will discuss how Jean Michel Basquiat delt and fought the oppressive systems of his time through his art.

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.

Basquiat died on August 12, 1988, in New York City ( Biography,n.d). In 1997 he stated to get recognition for his spray-painting cryptically poetic sayings on the walls of subway trains and across lower Manhattan and signing them under the alias  “SAMO” (Same Old Shit) ( Biography,n.d). His will power came from nature one quote that Basquiat says is “I don’t listen to what art critics say. I don’t know anybody who needs a critic to find out what art is.” (

Consequently, this notion of an imposing vision creates the truly compelling, haunting artworks of Post-Impressionism; particularly in the works of the artist, who needs no introduction, Vincent van Gogh. Vincent van Gogh during his humble artistic beginnings in Paris, France was heavily influenced by

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

As he was uttering all this, I wrote it all down, trying to make it fit into the significance behind the discovery of his signature style. He went on to tell me big part of the story follows the departure from his parents’ side. He said he went on to travel the globe, he studied art in Paris, found the love of his life. He commented that the sheer joy of just living life the way he wanted to steer it, allowed him to collect a bundle of memories and that it all has inspired his art. Life itself is a ceaseless source of inspiration and it morphed into his primary artistic influence: “I didn’t just sit one day and said ‘I’m going to have my own distinguished style.’ My art depicts aspects that are part of our normality—we just aren’t aware of

The events of Gogh’s death are not entirely known. The widely known opinion is that he shot himself in the stomach, however a new theory has arisen. It is that a group of boys that often tormented and bullied Van Gogh were playing with a gun one day. They accidently shot him, and Van Gogh, not wanting to see them punished withheld that information. Either way, on July 29, 1890 Vincent Van Gogh died in Theo’s arms, and only six months later Theo died from syphilis (Biography.com).

I was determined to absorb what I needed to for my artwork and ace the class at the same time. But as the class endured, I craved the information more and not just for the sole purpose of my artwork, but because it completely enthralled me. Human Anatomy and Physiology opened my eyes to detailed elements that compose the human body that I had never seen before in my life or in my art. Furthermore, I was able to articulate a connection between my hobby in art and my fascination with anatomy. The brachioradialis muscle needs defined curvature if the forearm is turned a certain way. An eye does not end medially with the sclera but with the lacrimal caruncle. Miniscule, but essential, features would not be overlooked when I was perfecting my drawings of