Art Explained | Jean-Michel Basquiat | Untitled (1982)

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Art Explained | Jean-Michel Basquiat | Untitled (1982)

In 1982 at the age of just 22 years old, Jean-Michel Basquiat would produce this painting. A powerful and dazzling image that mixes text, colour, symbolism and mark-making in a raw and uncensored explosion.

In a single painting, he would use his instinctive power of visual language to say everything he wanted to say. About America - about art - and about being black in both worlds.

Jean-Michel Basquiat (1960 -1988) was an American artist who rose to success during the 1980s as part of the neo-expressionism movement.

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Art Explained | Jean-Michel Basquiat | Untitled (1982)

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