Michel Basquiat Wolf Sausage
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About This Work
In **Michel Basquiat Wolf Sausage**, Jean-Michel Basquiat distills his restless visual vocabulary into a charged, emblematic encounter. A wolf-like figure and the disquieting suggestion of “sausage” operate as streetwise symbols—at once comic and threatening—through which the artist probes appetite, power, and consumption. Basquiat’s signature fusion of raw line, abrupt mark-making, and scumbled color creates a surface that feels both improvised and rigorously composed, where text and image collide like fragments of overheard language. The work’s blunt iconography and nervous energy underscore Basquiat’s enduring cultural critique, amplifying the immediacy of his neo-expressionist impact.
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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Contemporary Art • Hampstead, London
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