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I really liked the costumes Haring made for Grace Jones, especially the dress for her Roseland Ballroom performance New Year's Eve 1987
― Dan S, Friday, 10 July 2020 00:04 (three years ago) link
I don't think of Basquiat's work as belonging to the 80's in my own stupid uncultured mind, not in any kind of serious art history theory sense. Just in the way I appreciate it's qualities - it reminds me of some of the great abstract expressionists of the painters of the 50's in some ways I can't really express atm. But I would categorically state he is deffo classic and a great painter!
― calzino, Wednesday, July 8, 2020 7:39 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink
this is interesting Calz- thinking about this a little and a couple of similar artists might be Cy Twombly or Philip Guston perhaps? Not "classic" abstract expressionists but adjacent I suppose
― Neil S, Thursday, July 9, 2020 8:28 AM (fifteen hours ago)
Calzino - i think this is absolutely spot on fwiw, you're right to place him in that tradition imo and it's probably what he was reacting to in some way, even going back to German expressionism. It's evident enough in the emphasis on "gesture" in Basqiat's stuff, probably. But maybe even more so in all the introspective chaos.
With Twombly, there's also the abrasive line, of course- and you see that the art of skateboarders like Neck Face and Ed Templeton, and maybe going back to the Germans.
There's a lot of Guston in someone like Carroll Dunham
― Deflatormouse, Friday, 10 July 2020 04:13 (three years ago) link
Fandom is not a profession!
You have confidence in your judgements, so might as well trust your eye.
― Deflatormouse, Friday, 10 July 2020 04:31 (three years ago) link
love Basquiat's art but never considered him an abstract expressionist, he's much closer to Haring
Haring's art seems connected to Burroughs to me
― Dan S, Sunday, 12 July 2020 01:43 (three years ago) link
Haring, Twombly, Basquiat, Dunham are great, but Guston is the greatest of them all
― Dan S, Sunday, 12 July 2020 01:46 (three years ago) link
Love Twombly and Basquiat...don't really get the Dunham thing, even though I technically know him, have had dinner with him, etc. He's a nice guy. His art leaves me a little cold.
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