Basquiat is overrated and basic

Well, you told us.

Kind of like Tori Amos.

Well....SMELL Miss OP.

The Kardashians collect him, so it might as well be Thomas Kincaid as far as I’m concerned.

His style is basically categorized as “Give a Junkie an Elementary Art Class & Here You Go!”

Basquiat had a floridly creative period from late '81 to early '83. He produced astonishing works at an astonishing rate, fueled by his extreme youth and hunger for fame and by massive amounts of cocaine. After that, he started to burn out and became increasingly repetitive and uninspired.

Miss OP sounds like a fucking racist.

OP, you may appreciate this thread.

And this one:

R6 sounds like a hair trigger NiBi

A pox on your house r2

Not a fan of his work, but I am curious as to what OP’s motivation is...

He was terrifically talented. His work has held up very well in the past 30 years. He was inventive and a terrific draughtsman and very very motivated - he made a LOT of art in his short career. People who collect his work are very rich and they not stupid people. Your judgments are based on his personal life, not his actual talent and his work. He died because he was spoiled, and did not have a lot of self-control maybe; it's happened to a lot of talented youngsters. If you don't like his work, nobody cares. You're a windbag.

[quote] And this one:

R6 Took the words right out of my mouth.

His work is overrated, repetitive junky junk and his fame is due to him being black, looking "cool", having a Frenchesque name and dying young.

R12, the rich people who collect his stuff do so because they see it as an investment and because he churned so much out there's a lot of it still available.

[quote]Yeah, no.

But... people who use that expression tend to be very, very "basic," no?

Like any artist, you need to see a wide portfolio of his art to make an assessment. I've only seen a few of his famous works, so I don't have enough experience to make any judgments.

R15 You could say the same thing about Mimmo Paladino or Bliny Palermo. Except you've never heard of them.

R11 I’m laying here listening to The Strokes’ new album, and I see the album cover and it looked familiar. I do a quick Google search and see it was inspired by Monsieur Basquiat, and it took me back to one of Intro to Art courses in classes. Do I decided to share my random thoughts about him with the girls.

*Intro to Art courses in college.

Basquiat was seriously mentally ill, probably with either schizophrenia or severe bipolar disorder. He inherited the condition from his mother, who spent much of Basquiat's childhood in and out of various institutions. Basquiat was also hit by a car at a young age and spent weeks in the hospital, and he was physically abused by his father throughout this formative years. At 13, he was molested by an older man while on a trip to Puerto Rico, and by 16 he had run away from home and was turning tricks in Times Square to buy drugs.

He was never stable, and he never would have made old bones. He was quite talented, but his mental health and addiction issues kept him from achieving everything he could have. After that early, brief period of true innovation and artistic vision, he quickly descended into self-parody and bratty rock star behavior.

Oh and I didn’t mean to him “a Black” in the OP. I meant “a Black man”. At some point I’ll stop speed-typing on my phone to avoid really bad typos.

R16 It sure is. Be sure to pass that along when they auction off my post at Christie’s with a starting bit of $20M. 🙄

[quote] He was never stable, and he never would have made old bones.

Of course not. He would have painted them.

I actually have to agree with main point here Basquiat's stuff was similar to any number of downtown-y artists who came out of the graffiti art scene. With the right supporters, who were fascinated by his persona (and his hotness) , he was able to get the attention of the mainstream art world at just the right cultural moment. I'm not saying his work wasn't good because it obviously was. I'm just saying he wasn't a genius.

Nudes?

[quote] He was never stable, and he never would have made old bones. He was quite talented, but his mental health and addiction issues kept him from achieving everything he could have. After that early, brief period of true innovation and artistic vision, he quickly descended into self-parody and bratty rock star behavior.

Wow an unstable tortured artist with a tragic back story and substance abuse problems! Imagine that! He was certainly an anomaly in the art world.

R22 No you most certainly meant to type that as "A Black."

We all know your a white supremacist, there's no sense in trying to clean it up. You exposed yourself the first time.

If I had a 5 year-old, who was a junkie who looked at a lot of graffiti, and a POC who was considered "sexy" by the Art Establishment, he could do this stuff.

It is crystal clear that Black Excellence is a threat to white people.

To white people, Black Success will always be looked at as a fluke that should have never happened.

R29 snooze

Better him than that horrible K Haring.

I agree with R31 ! I loathe Haring . I do enjoy some of Basqiat's work ,but not all of them by any means . So much of the art world now is nothing but bullshit hype and no real talent . Lets be honest,that really started in the 80s with people like Basquiat .

R32 No, it started with Andy Warhol decades earlier.

Never mind, he's White!

His work has an electricity that still resonates 40 years later which certainly isn't true of many

Theres a lot of resentment on this thread. So many failed assholes, mad they didn't make it.

But the movie was marvalus. I fell in love with Wright.

It’s all in the story.

I love him.

Touche R33 . I agree wholeheartedly .

OP, sorry to put it this way, but nothing succeeds like success. If you're so jealous of Basquiat's success, you might wish him dead. Oh wait ... he's already dead. And yet, you are still alive! So, moving along ... to prove your point, why don't you share some photos of your artwork so we can be the judge of how superior you are to Basquiat. Maybe this thread on Datalounge will be the moment that elevates your status so your artistic talent can receive the recognition it so richly deserves.

Reading this thread full of pompous and argumentative twats made me want to kill myself.

I'm an artist and love Basquiat's work, but the OP does have a point. I know many people who know nothing about art and have no appreciation for it, yet they love Basquiat because of his story. It has nothing to do with the art itself, and all to do with glamorizing who he was as a person. Some of his pieces are exceptional, and some are dashed-off mediocrities. He was too prolific to have been consistent, but some of his art is very good indeed.