Michel Basquiat Wolf Sausage King Brand Dog
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About This Work
In *Michel Basquiat Wolf Sausage King Brand Dog*, Jean-Michel Basquiat distils his signature fusion of street-born mark-making and art-historical critique into a charged, emblematic image. Executed with the artist’s characteristic urgency—abrasive line, scrawled text, and graphic iconography—the work reads like a visual slogan, collapsing advertising language, animal totems, and coded references to power. Basquiat’s deft use of repetition and semiotic fragmentation transforms a seemingly playful motif into a commentary on commodification and identity, where the “brand” becomes a contested site of authorship and ownership. Rooted in 1980s New York’s hip-hop, graffiti, and downtown art scenes, the work underscores Basquiat’s enduring cultural relevance and influence on contemporary visual culture.
About the Artist
Jean-Michel Basquiat ( BAH-skee-AH(T), French: [ʒɑ̃ miʃɛl baskja]; December 22, 1960 – August 12, 1988) was an American artist who rose to success during the 1980s as part of the neo-expressionism movement. Basquiat first achieved notoriety in the late 1970s as part of the graffiti duo SAMO, alongsi...
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