The arm and hammer sends a message of "work hard so we can get rich from your labor" and Jean Michel counter expressed the message by saying "live free and enjoy the time you have to live". He understood the meaning of life on a different level than most. His untitled painting should be called " Power of knowledge" or "Step right in". His art is forever.

The paintings are much greater in real life. So much energy and power.

I'm a fan from Day 1 of Jean-Michel Basquiat

I visited his exhibition in Frankfurt, Germany on this past Friday. LOOOOOOVE! I didn't want to leave.

Upper Manhattan trying to decode - downtown streets New York.

Idc what people say I’ll always like basquiats work it’s amazing

extremely grateful as ever for these wonderful insights into contemporary exhibitions...for those of us who find travel costs and time prohibit access to our present culture, your films are the next best thing....and this one is beautifully made as usual with your ever thoughtful discussions to add richness and value... jean-michel was such a definitive post modernist...he was such a signpost for the future but like you point out there is something so very romantic in his expressionism and passion for painting...

weird the way the art critics say that jazz spills out and wins the day, which is awesome, but neglect to notice that the coinage is a crossed out commemorative one cent coin, representative of the black experience of never being recognized in an official or any other way for any contribution. anyhow, allegorically speaking to me of the truth that money is run by the powers that be, and just fekkin give to caesar what is caesar's.

Basquiat really injected much needed life, into Warhol...in every which way.)

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The paintings were massive.

I've been a huge fan of Basquiat and his art since first discovering him back in the early '90s (a few short years after his death). As much as Rauschenberg might be my personal favorite visual artist of the late 20th Century, I think that JMB is the most important artist of that era.

"When I first met Samo he was very young and homeless, Lower East Side Artist. I recall smoking joints, followed by a very deep conversations in my parked car and me saying to him, "You are sure to hit it big!" I whispered that into his ear when we hugged at his big show at the Whitney Biennial. At the start, It was obvious to everyone he had the magic. That dude really worked it hard, Constantly Creating Original Art. He was a very possessed, Artist Exploding... When we first met he was painting T-shirts, selling them on the street, then SNAP Whitney show and then a big loft in the heart of SoHo. The last time the two of us hung out togeather was in his BIG loft - LOTS OF ART EVERYWHERE and many Talked for hours about poetry-art-the sounds of letters. The last thing I said to Samo as I was leaving his loft was, "Dude, I lov U He smiled". - Tom Zatar Kay

Great insight to the work of a Genius.

Love Basquiat. He is a great inspiration for the Superblur Art Movement.

Very interesting insights. I can't get enough of Basquiat since I learned about him. Thank you! Keep up the great content. Greetings from Chile :-)

Clap Clap.... for the refresher course. Most of us got it from the very beginning. But what’s surprises me is the overlook of references to a saxophone being called an ‘AXE’ in the jazz scene. So the collaboration between Warhol and Basquiat could be titled :”Axe & Hammer” which is hilarious. The humor is not discussed when speaking about his paintings?

Really enjoy your insights and commentary in the series.

Jean-Michel Basquiat and Jhoan Roa are my favorite artists!

Basquait always gives you a lot to think about. It’s helpful to read about the paintings beforehand. I thought these so-called experts were kind of weak.

indentured labor? no. slavery

He be rockin’ that beat!

Im glad you mentioned about new york city in the late 70s early 80s, the city was truly alive and jmb captured it...these people commenting just dont get it...they werent there...they probably have experienced thier own life through facebook, video games and tv...i notice nyc is still holding on to that time period when i go there to visit, man that city has changed! Its turning so vanilla...very sad.

Raw power!

Thank you very much, have a lovely day. Friendly greetings.

Is this really Art, they are making the sound better than it is. that's what really sells the paintings

I went to an exhibition with a lot of his works, he did so much its crazy

Basquiat love Yellow

Great content. Nice vlog about his work.

As JM said” would you ask Miles Davis why he played a certain note?” Art is to be experienced and absorbed. Would you analyze each note listening to Pac? Beatles? Mozart? Prodigious talent- NYC misses you.

Turn off the sound and just enjoy the art. The way it should be.

It was a great show at the Barbican- love Jean Michel Basquiats work-what i don t think much of is these so called art critic type experts so full of themselves spoil it

THANKS SO VERY MUCH !!!!!

Wow thank you for this great video folks

Grace is insightful and appreciative.

I hate when "experts" attempt to interpret what an artist means, it sounds pretentious. I like his art because its colourful

This is very nice and yes though full. Nice way to explain.

Most insightful visit with some of JMB's major paintings. Thank you, Grace and Joshua.

love basquiat art

I really like this channel, its really good content

De Kooning is really a bigger influence on Basquaits work even if Basquait didnt like De Kooning it derives from that method of painting along with Cy Twombly, and Picasso, Pollock, and Warhol. Hes much more influenced by the history of painters than we realize. This notion that basquait was one in a billion is a bit wrong it would have not occured without strong influence.

"... he painted a calculated incoherence, calibrating the mystery of what such apparently meaning-laden pictures might ultimately mean." -Marc Mayer Basquiat in History

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I don't trust the dudes analysis he called Captain America a CARTOON CHARACTER 🤦🤦🤦🤦

His paintings instruct the viewer where to look, first

Sugar cane wasn't only harvested in the South... It was mainly harvested in the Caribbean... sooo... The British know first hand who benefitted from that labor... The British...

super art

Ishtar is a mesopotamian goddess!! Although Basquiat is great your reference to social media isn't convincing

In a reviewed painting, how could the “Basquit experts” not have seen the right hand boxing glove, halo, and left hand glove, as representations of watermelons?

What mean number 22 in the corner? And why 7 stars? 🎉

He'll always be alive and young.

Ashtar is a Babylonian goddess not Egyptian goddess

Pretty sure he was using oil crayons. Not crayola.

The esoteric of...

Painting or large doodle?

He was not an african american. He was indigenous to America.

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I have watched a documentary and a few other videos on Basquiat - still don't see the appeal. Yes, he was somewhat original, but also a scribbler. There is very little realism in his works and they dont seem to demonstrate much more artistic skill than something you'd see in a child's drawing.

Basquiat should get mass support from his fellow sub-literates: like knows like.

"Ladders" those are railroad tracks. There is clearly a guy then making them with a hammer in the bottom left.

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All European individuals translating for a Haitian/ Puerto Rican individual 🥸🧐

You can see twitter and facebook in his paintings? Oh common thats a stretch. Otherwise a very nice commentary

Did he say that it is Charlie Parker ????

Naivity art's.

Too much analysis. Corny, unnecessary. Just great art. Stop explaining that which you cannot explain. Carry on.

He didn't have the slightest ability to compose or structure a painting. The only thing that held together the unskillfully placed parts was the canvas. It is amazing how an association with Warhol will lift a person's value up.

It is such a shame that he was not around to see the riches

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Indentured labourers? This can’t be serious. This is an overly sanitized analysis of the work. “Heel” doesn’t mean “outsider” it means villain. The irony is it’s a mockery. I wish they would explore that.

He was also tripping out on drugs

:48 Rammellzee?

appear and act slightly eccentric, then throw a bunch of general concepts, lines and colours on a large canvas, and art lovers will lose their minds trying to squeeze some important meaning out of it. the illusion of art.

omg this I way over analyzed.

He prophesied jay z

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Ese homie se la sabe la morra no

I don't know anything about art, and I'm trying to appreciate his art but I can't I just see a bunch junk im sorry

Sugar cane- Puerto Rico, no the "South"... pretender expert.

may look like a kid painted it but I always know it's a Basquiat

lol it´s so weird everything we grew up with is now ' hip ' with normies

Scribbling and doodling. That's all. Basquiat pulled off one of the greatest jokes on NYC art elitists.

there's virgil abel who i think is putting words on clothes

Basquiat had two passions in his life: Art and drugs. Drugs was the strongest passion...

Looks like 9yo drawing

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The art looks like it was created to be made into hip clothing.

This was an awful exhibition. Emperor's new clothes if ever there were any...

Why do people need such ugliness in their lives.

Did you now that the Warhol & Basquiat show was very unsuccessful at the time? Nothing sold and critics described Basquiat merely as a "mascot" for the work Andy Warhols. Basquiat was very very sick drug addict, you didn't mention that once.

I wonder if he can really draw.

collage sucks. they make you read and it costs my old lady an arm and a leg. its cut n paste for bored chillun on a rainy day.

child drawings

Sure, one can interpret any doodle in some manner. There is no painter's skill to any of this canvas-smearing. He didn't go to art school? No ... who would have thought.

He killed himself because he knew his art sucked--and it does!

The worst paintings I've ever seen in my life.. because of his charisma.. he manipulated the people by his ugly pieces .. for me it's not painting at all but a scratch paper.