“The crown is his symbol for himself as well as a symbol of respect
for other figures of his work.”
“Identity can be what you believe to be true about yourself.”
“I used to Have the same lunch every day, for 20 years, I guess. The
same thing over and over again.”
“Andy loved being famous.”
“Jean Michel Basquiat became successful in the art world. He loved
being famous.”
Andy Warhol and
Jean Michel Basquiat were friends, they both loved painting. Andy liked to use
primary bright colors; he once was told to paint anything he loved so he
started to draw money also he liked to draw the same painting multiple times.
“Warhol also frequently used art to explore his homosexual identity.” Jean
liked graffiti, he liked to paint things he saw in real life and his paintings
were always full of emotions, he always used to draw crowns to represent
himself., his main themes were “mortality, race, self-identity, and religion”. They
both liked to drew things from real life even though everyone had his unique
personality in his drawings.
For both Warhol
and Basquiat, their parents encouraged them to be creative painters, and, in
their childhood, they were allowed to paint and to bring out the artist in
them. Jean Basquiat was influenced by his race and culture in his paintings, he
was always drawing native Americans, and his Haitian roots were well observed
in his paintings.
Despite being friends and Warhol trying to be the Godfather for
Basquiat, they represented similar ideas but with a different personality, Andy
liked to use his bright colors as his identity in POP art and went on painting
the same drawings several times but with different colors as what he did in
Marilyn Monroe drawings. Jean had his different way to draw, he was more into
graffiti and he had his kind of childish way of drawing.
Jean needed Warhol's fame, money, and experience to be a more
famous artist and Warhol needed Basquiat to get a new fresh creative blood.
They both needed each other to excel as artists. They both loved being famous.
Andy preferred using canvas because of his techniques in Silkscreen and acrylic
painting. Jean Basquiat started his artistic journey as a graffiti artist in
the streets so he was using any material that could be found in the streets to
make his pieces.
Basquiat invented himself, his work made him a remarkable artist
quickly but for Andy, I think was lucky enough to be public and his artwork
made him more popular.
The art of Self Invention, chapter 3:
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