In this article, Singulart takes a closer look at Jean Michel Basquiat’s life, career and the meaning behind Riding with Death.
Welcome to the Jean-Michel Basquiat Inspired Coloring Sheet, a creative exploration of the dynamic and expressive art of the iconic American artist, Jean-Michel Basquiat. This coloring sheet is designed to introduce your students to Basquiat's unique style and inspire them to explore the world of urban art, symbolism, and self-expression. About Jean-Michel Basquiat: Jean-Michel Basquiat was a trailblazing artist in the 1980s New York City art scene. He is known for his graffiti-inspired, raw, and emotionally charged artwork. Basquiat's art often incorporated text, symbols, and figures, addressing themes such as identity, race, and societal issues. His work continues to influence contemporary art and culture. Coloring Sheet Features: This coloring sheet is influenced by Basquiat's style, featuring bold lines and a canvas for students to infuse with color and their own artistic interpretations. Encourage students to explore Basquiat's use of symbols, text, and figures and to add their unique elements to the sheet. Educational Objectives: Introduction to Jean-Michel Basquiat: Use this coloring sheet as a springboard to introduce students to Basquiat's life and art. Discuss his significance in the art world and his impact on urban and contemporary art. Exploration of Color and Symbolism: Encourage students to experiment with color and symbolism, two prominent features in Basquiat's work. Discuss how colors and symbols can convey powerful messages and emotions. Artistic Self-Expression: Emphasize the importance of artistic self-expression and individuality. Basquiat's work is known for its raw and personal nature, making it a great starting point for students to express themselves. Discussion and Interpretation: After completing their coloring sheets, facilitate a discussion about the elements students chose to include and their interpretations. Encourage them to think critically about their artistic decisions. Extension Activities: Explore specific works by Jean-Michel Basquiat, such as "Untitled (1981)" or "Boy and Dog in a Johnnypump," and discuss the symbolism and themes within his art. Encourage students to create their own graffiti-inspired artwork or self-portraits using mixed media, including text, symbols, and found objects. Collaborate with the history or social studies department to discuss the cultural and historical context of Basquiat's work, particularly focusing on issues of race and identity. The Jean-Michel Basquiat Inspired Coloring Sheet invites your students to dive into the vibrant and expressive world of urban art. Encourage them to channel their inner Basquiat and use this activity as a platform for self-expression, creativity, and exploration of social and cultural themes.
Basquiat Movie Posters set of 4: Vintage Basquiat Japan movie posters/ flyers; comprised of two posters from the documentary 'Boom For Real The Late Teenage Years of Jean-Michel Basquiat'; 'Basquiat Radiant Child' (director Tamra Davis) and the 1990's Basquiat feature film by Julian Schanebel. 12 x 6 inches (applies to each individual piece). Minor signs of handling; very good overall condition. Well-suited for framing. Jean-Michel Basquiat (American, 1960–1988), one of the first African American artists to reach international stature and wealth in the art world, had a short but impactful career. His rise to fame came quickly, as he was celebrated for his fusion of multicultural symbols, biting social commentary, and distinctive graphic style. Born in Brooklyn, NY, Basquiat drew and visited museums regularly from an early age, and many of his childhood interests—ranging from cartoons and Alfred Hitchcock films to anatomy and French and Spanish textbooks—would prove influential in his later work. Basquiat dropped out of school at the age of 17 and began creating art full time, gaining notoriety for his invented character SAMO (“Same Old Shit”), who made a living peddling “fake” religion. Ever conscious of his identity as an African-American in the art world, Basquiat’s work was rife with imagery commenting on race relations in America, and drawing from the culture of the African Diaspora. His prevalent drug use became a greater concern to his friends and colleagues in the mid-1980s, and the artist’s fiery temper and capriciousness increased, particularly when working with dealers or developing his oeuvre. Warhol’s death in 1987 deeply affected Basquiat, and he painted several final works in a frenzy, full of apocalyptic imagery but with a confident, mature style. He died of a drug overdose on August 12, 1988, ending a brief but highly influential life at the age of 27. As a testament to his lasting importance to the history of art, in 2016 his large canvas Untitled (1982) broke auction records with a final price of $57.3 million.
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Cardboard Crowns Jean-Michel Basquiat style! Kids will love the process of creating and designing their own cardboard crowns while learning about the artist who's work inspired them. This wearable art is a great craft idea for grades K-8
Taken from Phaidon's new release, "500 Self Portraits," here are 27 surprising self-portraits from some of the most renowned artists of the 20th and 21st centuries.
You either love or hate Jean-Michel Basquiat (Haiti 1960-New York City 1988). Our featured artist grew up in Brooklyn and began his career as a street and graffiti artist in the streets of NY. He became good friends with Andy Warhol, who supported his artistic endeavors. His art makes political, personal and social statements, often using free association texts, drawings and statements. Basquiat died of a drug overdose when he was 27. Sometimes humorous, sometimes disturbing, his art is every bit as fun as it is heavy. My 6-7 yrs olds beautifully channeled Basquiat in their self-portraits with free-association elements. Take a close look and get inside the complex minds of my littlest artists. Aditri 7 Rune 6 Elena 6 Mei Mei 7 Daniel 7 Yiming 6 We began by looking at and discussing several of Basquiat's paintings. The kids pointed out that there are faces, words, sentences, drawings, nonsense text and lots of colors. We then talked about creating our own self-portrait, and thought of some words or drawings that might accompany our portrait (these can be anything you freely associate with yourself). I decided to forgo the usual crisp white paper for this project and instead had the kids paint their portraits on painted paper. I cut brown packing paper, which had previously served as table protectors and were full of paint and scribbles from previous art classes, into 12x15 sizes. This added to that Basquiat look of a scribbly, random, messy background. The kids chose the paint paper they wanted. We 'drew' our face with a tiny brush and black acrylic paint. Then added some areas of blue, yellow and red to frame our face and add some bursts of color. Next, we got our our black permanent makers and fine liners, our white gel pen, and our acrylic paint pens and added our free-association elements. We were mindful of thinking of balance and harmony - placing our elements thoughtfully around the painting. Lastly, we 'traced' along the black edge of our portrait with a white gel pen to make our face pop out and give us the contrast and focus it needs to stand out against a busy background. These turned out so beautifully, and each is so unique to my students.
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The late painter and graffiti writer Jean-Michel Basquiat didn’t have an uncanny talent to sketch out dynamic anatomy like Jack Kirby, Burne Hogarth, or the other comic art masters whose work would…
Jean Michel Basquiat Jean-Michel Basquiat (December 22, 1960 – August 12, 1988) was an American artist. His career in art began as a graffiti artist in New York City in the late 1970s, and in the 1…
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Diarist of the Andy Warhol Diaries and close friend, Pat Hackett, releases a set of never before seen images taken by the artist in 1980s New York
Jean-Michel Basquiat's work is one of the few examples of how an early 1980s American Punk, or graffiti-based and counter-cultural practice could become a fully recognized, critically embraced and popularly celebrated artistic phenomenon, indeed not unlike the rise of American ‘Hip Hop’ during the same era. Despite his work's ‘unstudied’ appearance, Basquiat very skillfully and purposely brought together in his art a host of disparate traditions, practices, and styles to create a unique kind of visual collage, one deriving, in part, from his urban-American origins, and in another a more distant, African-Caribbean heritage. For some critics, Basquiat's swift rise to fame and equally swift and tragic death by drug overdose epitomizes and personifies the overly commercial, ‘hyped up’ international art scene of the mid 1980s, a cultural phenomenon that for many observers was symptomatic of the largely artificial, yet, for some, perversely profitable ‘Bubble Economy’ of the era. Basquiat's work is an example of how American artists of the 1980s could reintroduce the human figure in their work after the wide success of Minimalism and Conceptualism, thus establishing a dialogue with the more distant tradition of 1950s Abstract Expressionism. The recipient of posthumous retrospectives at the Brooklyn Museum (2005) and the Whitney Museum of American Art (1992), as well as the subject of numerous biographies and documentaries, including Jean-Michel Basquiat: The Radiant Child (2010; Tamra Davis, Dir.), and Julian Schnabel's feature film, Basquiat (1996; starring former friend David Bowie as Andy Warhol), Basquiat and his counter-cultural example persist. 1983 Horn Player 1983 Mona Lisa 1983 The Italian 1983 Untitled 1983 Untitled (Leonardo and his Five Grotesque Heads) 1984 Flexible 1984 Gastruck 1984 Untitled 1984 Untitled (Skull) 1985 Anthony Clarke 1985 Overrun 1985 Tenor (I don't have titles or dates for the following:) Jean-Michel Basquiat died of a heroin overdose in 1988. Note: A number of images have been removed by me from this post on possible copyright issues. Poul Webb
People are always coming and going to Felice’s. There are writers Luc Sante and Darryl Pinckney and filmmaker Jim Jarmusch. Felice Rosser is the Woman-in-the-scarf in Jim’s short film Permanent Vacation and obviously the inspiration behind the character Bargatta in Darryl Pinckney’s novel High Cotton. There’s the photographer Nan Goldin, friends or friends of friends […]
Thi Jean-Michel Basquiat art history lesson introduces elementary-aged kids to the colorful world of New York art with a project-based lesson plan.
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