Essays on Jean-Michel Basquiat

In this paper we will look at how the 1970s and the early 80s showed a resurgence of interest in painting. This was a result of suppression of visual pleasure that was present at the time in the dominant art practices of the 70s. There came up a movement of painters who came up with the neo-expressionism style that advocated for the freedom in painting, a style that became really popular with the people (Sandler, 1996). It started in Germany in the 60s spread through Europe and then America. So as to study this movement well, painters like Jean-Michel ...

Un Chien Andalou (Dali and Bunuel)–surrealism/film

Un Chien Andalou was Luis Bunuel’s first film that he produced during the surrealism period. Bunuel produced the film during the Dada Movement that a group of surrealists was trying to substitute. The artists were more intrigued with examining irrational knowledge and desire, and they dedicated their efforts and time towards reconfiguring the object world (Elder 45). Research indicates that the artists of Dada drew their inspiration from automatic painting, writing, hypnotic trance, and psychoanalysis. The film Un Chien Andalou plays around with corruption of time, reality, and symbolism. As a surrealist artist, Bunuel firmly believed that nature ...

New York Artist

Jean-Michel Basquiat is a renowned artist f New York, who got fame during 1980s, and fame he got is, however, unprecedented in the world of the art (Fretz). He is the exceptional black painter that has achieved the status of the numinous celebrity. He has turned the primitivist, romantic, and the expressionistic directions in order to create the work that delved into myth as well as in history, and played an important role in affirming the redemptive power of the art. In the paintings of Basquiat, the focus is on the textual imagery as well as on the specific visuals; ...

Classic English Literature

Marcp8, 2013

Thesis Statement:Du Bois argued that people from African decent live through a special double consciousnesswhere there exists a psychological challenge of integration of African heritage to the European cultural background and education. Walker used the mule as the representation of black women who surpassed the abuses and oppression they went through to establish African identity, territory, class, culture and kinship with other nations. King’s letter was used as the medium to expose his sentiments against racism and human conflict where he expressed optimism in his battle despite the extreme prejudices committed against the blacks. Race is proven to ...

The Impact of Jean-Michel Basquiat

Jean-Michel Basquiat was an artist who died young but his art continues to have a huge impact in the world today. He died of a heroin overdose when he was only 27 years old. From an early age, his parents and teachers noted that he was quite talented in art and encouraged him to pursue it then and even in the future. When his parents separated, his father took custody of him and his siblings. However He ran away from home at the age of 15. He lived on the streets where he slept on park benches where he was picked ...