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→ 29 Apr 13 at 6 pm

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→ 02 Apr 13 at 6 pm Just received my copy of “Jean Michel- Basquiat: The Radiant Child”!!! :-)

→ 30 Mar 13 at 6 pm FINALLY GOT TO SEE HiS ART WORK!

→ 25 Mar 13 at 10 pm

Reality it’s wrong, dreams are foreal.

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→ 25 Mar 13 at 6 pm

Basquiat (1996) - Directed by Julian Schnabel (via cinemagreats)

"
He says he’s jealous of the moon, because you look at it.

He’s jealous of the sun, because it warms you.

He says, “I feel you, even when Im not feeling you.

I talk to you when Im not talking to you.

I love you, even when Im not loving you.
"

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→ 25 Mar 13 at 6 pm barringtonsmiles:

Basquiat’s Crowns (1981-2)

A crown appears frequently in the early work of Jean-Michel Basquiat signaling his ambition and understanding of art history. Many artists used their monarchs to symbolize their own majestic powers and Basquiat, lacking one, continued the tradition in his own way. Besides, Basquiat was ambitious and out to become king of the pack. One friend who knew him early on wrote: “He could walk into a thrift store with five bucks and come out looking like a king. In fact he basically behaved like a king who had accidentally switched lives with an identical pauper.” Let’s take a look at Red Kings, painted in 1981 when he was twenty-one.

The left-hand side of this double-portrait represents Basquiat himself crowned. We know that because in the four blank empty spots, indicating eyes, nose and mouth, the letters B, Q and S appear, enough to suggest his name: BASQUIAT.

The apparent competition with Warhol and Picasso is not an exterior happening nor an account of their own places in history. Instead as in all art, the allusions are metaphorical. Basquiat’s own mind has assimilated aspects of Warhol or Picasso through intimate knowledge of their work. Each of those heads is Basquiat. The Christ-figure, too, is not the historic Jesus but the divine spark in each of us which, if nurtured, will make us “Christ”. Basquiat had no particular religion but the esoteric idea that we can each strive to become perfect, pure or wholly divine is such an important theme in poetic art and literature, regardless of which strain of the Inner Tradition is followed, that the sensitive Basquiat could not have missed it. And, once we attain perfection, we are re-born like Christ as an infant (metaphorically, of course.)

Sources (and additional actual literary sources can be found at): http://everypainterpaintshimself.com/article/basquiats_crowns

barringtonsmiles:

Basquiat’s Crowns (1981-2)

A crown appears frequently in the early work of Jean-Michel Basquiat signaling his ambition and understanding of art history. Many artists used their monarchs to symbolize their own majestic powers and Basquiat, lacking one, continued the tradition in his own way. Besides, Basquiat was ambitious and out to become king of the pack. One friend who knew him early on wrote: “He could walk into a thrift store with five bucks and come out looking like a king. In fact he basically behaved like a king who had accidentally switched lives with an identical pauper.” Let’s take a look at Red Kings, painted in 1981 when he was twenty-one.
The left-hand side of this double-portrait represents Basquiat himself crowned. We know that because in the four blank empty spots, indicating eyes, nose and mouth, the letters B, Q and S appear, enough to suggest his name: BASQUIAT.
The apparent competition with Warhol and Picasso is not an exterior happening nor an account of their own places in history. Instead as in all art, the allusions are metaphorical. Basquiat’s own mind has assimilated aspects of Warhol or Picasso through intimate knowledge of their work. Each of those heads is Basquiat. The Christ-figure, too, is not the historic Jesus but the divine spark in each of us which, if nurtured, will make us “Christ”. Basquiat had no particular religion but the esoteric idea that we can each strive to become perfect, pure or wholly divine is such an important theme in poetic art and literature, regardless of which strain of the Inner Tradition is followed, that the sensitive Basquiat could not have missed it. And, once we attain perfection, we are re-born like Christ as an infant (metaphorically, of course.)
Sources (and additional actual literary sources can be found at): http://everypainterpaintshimself.com/article/basquiats_crowns

→ 25 Mar 13 at 6 pm

“This is a song for the genius child.

Sing it softly, for the song is wild.
Sing it softly as ever you can -
Lest the song get out of hand.

Nobody loves a genius child.

Can you love an eagle,
Tame or wild?
Can you love an eagle,
Wild or tame?
Can you love a monster
Of frightening name?

Nobody loves a genius child.

Kill him - and let his soul run wild.

”

— “Genius Child” -Langston Hughe

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→ 25 Mar 13 at 5 pm Simply Epic #Basquiat

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→ 24 Mar 13 at 8 pm twin-anxiety:

kisakiru:

I love the 2nd and 6th. The 3rd is also cute too.

such a legend. the 4th one is IT
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→ 24 Mar 13 at 8 pm

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"He says he’s jealous of the moon, because you look at it. He’s jealous of the sun, because it warms you. He says, “I feel you, even when Im not feeling you. I talk to you when Im not talking to you. I love you, even when Im not loving you."

Basquiat’s Crowns (1981-2)

"
He says he’s jealous of the moon, because you look at it.

He’s jealous of the sun, because it warms you.

He says, “I feel you, even when Im not feeling you.

I talk to you when Im not talking to you.

I love you, even when Im not loving you.
"