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| Jean-Michel Basquiat, Untitled, 1982 |
Basquiat: Boom for Real is at
Barbican Art Gallery until 28 January 2018.
Jean-Michel Basquiat’s star burned bright and brief. In
1976, aged 16, he and
Al Diaz, working as
SAMO (‘Same Old Shit’) spray painted
cryptic messages on buildings in Lower Manhattan; in 1979 their partnership
ended, marked by the graffito
SAMO is
dead. In 1980, he showed work in a mixed exhibition in New York, was picked
up by a gallery and met Andy Warhol with whom he went on to collaborate.
Through the early and middle 1980s he exhibited widely in America and
internationally and was written about in the art press; in 1988, he died of a
drug overdose, aged 27. In 2017,
Untitled,
1982
sold for $110.5 million (£85 million).
The paintings he made in the 1980s pulse with energy and
bristle with ideas; texts and images combine and collide in an expressionist
explosion. He was a hip-hop Cy Twombly. This will be an exhilarating exhibition.
Read reviews by
Waldemar Januszczak,
Joe Lloyd,
Sarah Kent,
Mark Hudson,
Jonathan Jones;
read an
interview with exhibition curator Eleanor Nairne.
Click on images to enlarge.
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Jean-Michel-Basquiat, Untitled, 1980
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| Jean-Michel-Basquiat, Skull, 1981 |
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| Jean-Michel-Basquiat, Leonardo da Vinci's Greatest Hits, 1982 |
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| Jean-Michel-Basquiat, Hollywood Africans, 1983 |
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| Jean-Michel-Basquiat, Pablo Picasso, 1984 |
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| Jean-Michel-Basquiat, Self Portrait, 1984 |
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| Jean-Michel-Basquiat, Glenn, 1985 |
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Jean-Michel-Basquiat, King Zulu, 1986
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Postscript
Banksy has paid his own hommage to Basquiat with a couple of pieces on the Barbican walls -
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| Banksy, 2017 |
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