graffiti AS THE CRITICAL ART: Jean Michel Basquiat Graffiti
Jean-Michel Basquiat was American painter and a writer of Haitian descent. It was one of the leading exponents of American Graffiti, managing to bring, along with Keith Haring, this movement from the streets metropolitan art galleries.
Basquiat begins to enter the world of art with graffiti. His works, signed SAMO, "poems of the street", as they were defined by the Soho News, attracted real puzzle, but at the same time were presented as a protest against contemporary society and combat forms classic representation of "making art . Sometimes it was existential statements resulting from a continuous stream of thought, almost philosophical, a kind of guru, a new preacher.
Basquiat paintings devoted to social issues , where there is a clear demand for recognition, equality, respect for human values. In an interview he admitted that 80% of its work was motivated by anger, he openly denounces the abuses suffered in the past and present from black people slaves, sold as a commodity, the people used to trade in diamonds or salt, by athletes of color who, while successful, they could not celebrate in the local white team-mates At the same Basquiat, famous black artist, who "can not hail a taxi from either star."
signs of Basquiat and the drawings are the cries of those who have experienced on their own indifference, discrimination, exclusion of that life in New York. Just over the years in which these contradictions became sclerotic and acuivano: the eighties.
Basquiat began painting graffiti on walls in Brooklyn and night on a sheet of subway art form visible to all, without a business pagare.Una art form used today by many young people to communicate with the city to leave their mark in the metropolis of anonymity and alienation, where the space and the possibility of 'expression for young people are less and less. Unfortunately, every creative behavior unrelated to the commodification is criminalized any form of 'street art is transformed into a problem of public policy with the establishment of specialized forces with graffiti to repress and punish the expression of young people.
Perhaps it's starting to be able writers distinguish between art and street thugs , between men and mess up any Ingenga as Basquiat, starting to punish them and looking to preserve the talent of the first ..