Basquiat

Title: Basquiat
Category: Arts & Humanities | Words: 492 | Pages: 2.1 (approximately 235 words/page)

Basquiat

In the 1980's art punk movement, the only thing the market liked better than a hot young artist was a dead hot young artist, and it got one in Jean-Michel Basquiat, whose working life of about nine years was truncated by a heroin overdose at the age of twenty-seven. His career, both actual and posthumous, appealed to a cluster of toxic vulgarities. The artist was"instinctual," someone outside "mainstream" culture and therefore not to be …showed first 75 words of 492 total…

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…showed last 75 words of 492 total…may argue that the paintings of Jean-Michel Basquiat are deceptively simple many say they are sloppy works covered in irreverent text and portraits that any grade one student could imitate and improve. Basquiat would spin out art without paying any attention or care to the final product. However it is a difficult thing to prove anti-art, because of the fact that art is so personal and individually interpreted. Bibliography Basquiat: A Quick Killing in Art

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