The Life Of Jean-Michel Basquiat

Throughout history, symbols have had an overwhelming presence among citizens. The French Revolution had many symbols that represented power. Did the events leading up to the storming of the Bastille persuade the French citizens to believe that it was a symbol of power? There are many reasons why the French citizens would believe the Bastille to be a symbol of power. It was a very overwhelming stone structure, which stood robust, surrounded by small villages along with farmland. The architecture and placement of this fortress gave itself a reputation of strength and impregnation. It stood by itself, being the most intimidating structure of its time.

Antoine Watteau’s La Perspective (View through the Trees in the Park of Pierre Crozat) uses many elements of the Rococo style of painting to instill a sense of intimacy. In this painting, members of the elite society gather unceremoniously in a wooded clearing. The people make casual exchanges as they mingle in the park. Trees and foliage dominate a majority of the painting. A small white building can be seen in the background through a clearing in the trees. Watteau uses color, composition, setting, and pose in the painting to create intimacy.

Jean-Michel Basquiat was born on December 22, 1960, in Brooklyn, New York. His mother was a Puerto Rican, and his father was a Haitian immigrant, the combination of both eventually led Jean-Michel's into learning creole, Spanish, and English. At an early age, Jean-Michel decided he wanted to be a cartoonist and so his mother took him to a art museums in order to stimulate his imagination. He showed a precocious talent for drawing, and his mother enrolled him as a Junior Member of the Brooklyn Museum when he was six. At the age of eight, he was extremely injured in a car accident and was hospitalized for a month. He broke his arm, suffered multiple internal injuries and underwent a splenectomy. His mother brought him a copy of his Grey’s

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.

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.

When I first watch this video the first image I saw was the artists. I was hoping that I was going learn more about the artists itself but it was just a slide show of his work. In the slide show there some pictures of him himself and some painting of himself. Also there are some painting of the bone of the skull, which he added the faces, eyes, and face expression. I can tell he know for bone painting because that’s all I see through the slide show. I also notice that he uses words and symbol in some of his painting. I enjoy Basquiat Heroin, I hope to hearing about

Basquiat was first recognized as a part of the graffiti group, “SAMO,” which bore a heavy influence on the neo-expressionist and primitive painting style that he later became known for. By the time he had hit his twenties, he was already collaborating with pop art icon Andy Warhol, and showing alongside Julian Schnabel and David Salle. Despite having died at the young age of 27, Basquiat’s work, which was deeply rooted in social commentary, continues to influence and fascinate contemporary artists and collectors

Paris France, 1789 change is in the air, the people could feel the power they finally held after so many years of fear and doubt. The Bastille stood as a symbol of monarchy rule, the oppression of the people, and a barrier between the old world ways and the world of transformation. The Bastille erected on the edge of Paris, an image of protection; in 1789, the streets of Faubourg Saint-Antione suburb, with the growth of the city, engulfed it. Centuries after its construction, the Bastille was nothing more than an outdated prison, housing only a few political prisoners although it did house 250 barrels of gunpowder needed by the citizens that stormed the Bastille. The long-suffering people took back what they felt was theirs, wanting political equality and fair representation in the government. Hungry, tired, and disillusioned, namely self-employed laborers , citizens of moderate wealth , heavily taxed by the state , stormed the Bastille, mobilizing by word of mouth in the market places and shops across the city .

With parades, fireworks, and concerts. Bastille Day is one of the most celebrated holidays in France. Rather than celebrating the storming of the Bastille itself. Bastille day is a day that celebrates the three tenets of the republican national motto: "liberty, equality and fraternity." It was all started on July 14, 1789 when an angered group of Parisians stormed the Bastille. The Bastille, also known as Bastille Saint-Antoine, was fortress and prison. At the time there were only seven inmates in the prison when the storming took place. The Parisians saw the prison fortress as the symbol of an oppressive monarchy. Its fall was the flashpoint of the French Revolution.

One influential artist is Jean-Michel Basquiat.Basquiat was born to a Haitian father and Puerto Rican mother.Basquiat was born in December 22,1960 in Brooklyn New York City.Basquiat dropped out of Edward R.murrow high school in the tenth grade but later attended City as school which was an alternative high school for many artistic students

Jean Michel Basquiat was a black artist known for his significant role in the Neo-Expressionism movement. His work functions in a different manner than the art community was accustomed to, his paintings mixed words and images from different cultures and beliefs, scrawled text and jarring brushstrokes became his trademark. Basquiat’s juxtaposition as a black artist in a predominantly white community had a toll on his mental health which caused an overall shift in his work. Basquiat frequently illustrated the topics of socioeconomic and racial inequalities, colonization and imperialism in his work such as Defacement and The History of Black People. These topics were no longer the main source of inspirations towards the end of his career, a time

Paul Gauguin was born on June 7th, 1848 and passed away on May 8th, 1903, due to syphilis. Paul was a French-post impressionist. Paul was a stockbroker, but on his free time, he dedicated his time to art. Paul was known and recognized for his experimental use of colors. Many people though did not really appreciate him until after his death. He painted a self-portrait in 1888, called “Self-portrait dedicated to Carrier”. This picture was an oil painting on canvas.

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The modernity for Jean Baudrillard, who can be attributed more to the critics of the postmodern situation than to its apologists, is the era of total simulation, and he everywhere discovers the simulation character of all modern social and cultural phenomena. As a result, according to Baudrillard, people do not deal with reality, but with hyper reality, perceived much more realistically than reality itself. The current state of things is called Baudrillard's "state after orgies" / Transparency of Evil, 1990 /. Every explosive moment in the world is an orgy. "This is the moment of liberation in any sphere. The liberation of the political and sexual, the liberation of the productive and destructive forces, the liberation of women and