A Portrait of a Black Hero: Jean-Michel Basquiat
I drew on inspiration from Basquiat to create a portrait of my Back Hero, Jean-Michel Basquiat, in the style of the one-and-only, Jean-Michel Basquiat.
Please listen to the recording below for a full explanation of my process and inspiration.
Sources:
Basquiat, Jean Michel. “Jean Michel Basquiat.” BOMB, no. 27 (1989): 77–77. http://www.jstor.org/stable/40423812.
Anthony B. Pinn. “‘Why Can’t I Be Both?’: Jean-Michel Basquiat and Aesthetics of Black Bodies Reconstituted.” Journal of Africana Religions 1, no. 1 (2013): 109–32. https://doi.org/10.5325/jafrireli.1.1.0109.
Schur, Richard. “Post-Soul Aesthetics in Contemporary African American Art.” African American Review 41, no. 4 (2007): 641–54. https://doi.org/10.2307/25426982.
Kan, Koon-Hwee. “Adolescents and Graffiti.” Art Education 54, no. 1 (2001): 18–23. https://doi.org/10.2307/3193889.
Ruff, Scott. “Signifyin’: African-American Language to Landscape.” Thresholds, no. 35 (2009): 66–69. http://www.jstor.org/stable/43876570.