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Since today's "World Art Day", I wanted to pay tribute to another one of my favorite artists, Jean-Michel Basquiat. This is another amazing artist that sadly is no longer with us (he passed away on August 12, 1988 due to a heroin overdose) but his work is still appreciated both in Art and Fashion.
Jean-Michel Basquiat rose to fame as part of the graffiti duo SAMO, alongside Al Diaz, writing enigmatic epigrams in the cultural hotbed of Manhattan's Lower East Side during the late 1970s, where rap, punk, and street art coalesced into early hip-hop music culture. In memory of the late artist, Keith Haring created the painting "A Pile of Crowns for Jean-Michel Basquiat", in the obituary Haring wrote for Vogue :"He truly created a lifetime of works in ten years. Greedily, we wonder what else he might have created, what masterpieces we have been cheated out of by his death, but the fact is that he has created enough work to intrigue generations to come. Only now will people begin to understand the magnitude of his contribution".
Jean-Michel Basquiat rose to fame as part of the graffiti duo SAMO, alongside Al Diaz, writing enigmatic epigrams in the cultural hotbed of Manhattan's Lower East Side during the late 1970s, where rap, punk, and street art coalesced into early hip-hop music culture. In memory of the late artist, Keith Haring created the painting "A Pile of Crowns for Jean-Michel Basquiat", in the obituary Haring wrote for Vogue :"He truly created a lifetime of works in ten years. Greedily, we wonder what else he might have created, what masterpieces we have been cheated out of by his death, but the fact is that he has created enough work to intrigue generations to come. Only now will people begin to understand the magnitude of his contribution".
Category All / General Furry Art
Species Human
Size 1662 x 2217px
File Size 3.94 MB
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