NAACP: AUSTIN
  • Home
  • About Us
    • Letter From the President
  • Banquet
    • 2022 Annual Banquet
    • 2020 Annual Banquet
    • 2018 Image Gallery
    • 2017 Image Gallery
    • 2016 Image Gallery
    • 2015 Image Gallery
  • Branch Activities
    • Confronting Police Violence
    • Use of Force Deaths in ATX
    • ACT-SO Competition
  • Blog
  • Get Involved
    • Upcoming Events
    • Monthly Branch Meetings
    • Community Meetings
    • Youth Council Meetings
    • Membership and Donations
    • Local Resources
    • Contact Us
    • FACEBOOK
NAACP News

black history month: jean-michel basquiat

2/27/2019

0 Comments

 
Picture
Eight short years. That’s how long it took Jean-Michel Basquiat to secure his legacy as an art world prodigy.


He died at the age of 27 from a heroin overdose, leaving behind paintings, drawings, and notebooks, many of which explored themes of counterculture American punk, the urban plight of the African diaspora, improvisational jazz music and the vagaries of fame during the Ronald Reagan-era 1980s.


As influential as Basquiat is, most of his work is privately owned and very few public galleries or museums own or exhibit any of his best-known pieces. His paintings very rarely appear at auction and now attract stratospheric prices when they do. In May 2016, Basquiat’s 1982 Untitled painting shattered his auction world record when it was sold for $57.3 million at Christie’s, making him the most financially successful African-American painter in history. Basquiat fanboy (and collector) Jay Z even bragged in his 2013 song Picasso Baby — "It ain’t hard to tell, I’m the new Jean-Michel. Without him, graffiti as an art form would not exist in the way it does today."

0 Comments



Leave a Reply.

    Picture
    For frequent updates, visit the Facebook page of Austin NAACP President Nelson Linder!

    Archives

    January 2023
    December 2022
    November 2022
    September 2022
    August 2022
    June 2022
    April 2022
    February 2022
    January 2022
    November 2021
    October 2021
    September 2021
    August 2021
    July 2021
    June 2021
    May 2021
    April 2021
    March 2021
    February 2021
    January 2021
    December 2020
    November 2020
    October 2020
    August 2020
    July 2020
    June 2020
    May 2020
    April 2020
    March 2020
    February 2020
    January 2020
    December 2019
    November 2019
    October 2019
    September 2019
    August 2019
    July 2019
    June 2019
    May 2019
    April 2019
    March 2019
    February 2019
    January 2019
    December 2018
    November 2018
    October 2018
    September 2018
    August 2018
    July 2018
    June 2018
    May 2018
    April 2018
    March 2018
    February 2018
    January 2018
    December 2017
    August 2017
    April 2017
    March 2017
    February 2017
    August 2016
    October 2015
    July 2015
    May 2015
    April 2015
    February 2015
    August 2014
    May 2014
    January 2014
    September 2013
    April 2013

    RSS Feed

  • Home
  • About Us
    • Letter From the President
  • Banquet
    • 2022 Annual Banquet
    • 2020 Annual Banquet
    • 2018 Image Gallery
    • 2017 Image Gallery
    • 2016 Image Gallery
    • 2015 Image Gallery
  • Branch Activities
    • Confronting Police Violence
    • Use of Force Deaths in ATX
    • ACT-SO Competition
  • Blog
  • Get Involved
    • Upcoming Events
    • Monthly Branch Meetings
    • Community Meetings
    • Youth Council Meetings
    • Membership and Donations
    • Local Resources
    • Contact Us
    • FACEBOOK