Michel Basquiat Per Capita
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About This Work
In *Michel Basquiat Per Capita*, Jean-Michel Basquiat distills his signature fusion of street-born immediacy and art-historical intelligence into a charged meditation on value and visibility. Layered marks—urgent linework, staccato text fragments, and iconographic symbols—create a restless surface where meaning accrues through repetition and abrasion. The title’s economic inflection suggests a critique of measurement: of bodies, culture, and success reduced to statistics, set against the irreducible force of individual identity. Basquiat’s raw palette and palimpsestic structure heighten the work’s visual voltage, inviting close reading while retaining the impact of a direct, uncompromising gesture.
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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