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theflytrap · 7 months
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Jay-Z at the Pulitzer Arts Foundation in St. Louis, Missouri.
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pineconecowgirl · 6 months
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keith haring, grace jones, fela kuti and jean-michel basquiat. new york, 1986.
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puffsandpalettes · 6 months
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the-cricket-chirps · 6 months
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Jean-Michel Basquiat
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1982
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bconker · 1 month
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Basquiat. Untitled (Angel) 1982
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nk-salinger · 1 year
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jefe-b · 1 year
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Basquiat Apartment Art Studio 1980
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isthespiceoflife · 9 months
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limitdedition · 7 months
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midnightcowb0ys · 7 months
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corbinoooo · 8 months
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it’s all experimental
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moonchild-111 · 22 days
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"Art is how we decorate space, music is how we decorate time."
Jean - Michel Basquiat
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sli-writes · 1 year
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Essay: Is depression a natural by-product of being an artist
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Self-Portrait with Bandaged Ear,  Vincent van Gogh. 1889
We’ve all heard about the “tortured artist,” thinking, oof, I don’t want to end up there. Yet, you soon realise what they’ve created could’ve been a result of being in such a state of awareness; relentless persistence of observation, expression and individual psych. It has to do with the art of being; never getting away from it or allowing for mundane not-really-important interruptions to win, all in the spirit of getting to new and worthwhile (remember this word) ideas - all the while in solitude - that’s one of the requirements (at least to my experience).Tortured carries a negative connotation, in the world of an artist however, I believe it has to do with never truly shutting off; having a constant existing not only of the world around you but inside of you.
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Flesh and Spirit,  Jean-Michel Basquiat.  c. 1982–83
Research suggests that bipolar disorder results in creativity. Often, not always. On the surface level, it explains everything as I can see the parallels by looking at a Basquiat, you think; such sudden bursts of creativity, the kind too that make for a great artist, how? I’m by no means suggesting he had a mental illness, I can’t speak on his state of mind, but what genius. I have but only admiral reverence. The trend does in fact persists in a way that one cannot refute the streams of genius seemly flowing from ill mental health issues.    
Conversely, it is believed the practice of art helps with stress, decreased depression and anxiety but honestly, the practice never helped me with that because the cycle of bringing ideas to life goes a little like this. In the being, there’s no “chasing of the clock,” tasks performed ordinarily or by rote; there are however times for keeping your head down and grinding it out, honestly, there is no formula I can suggest that makes for a concise proof. It’s getting the ideas out through sheer force. You sometimes don’t even know if idea is worthwhile, even after you’ve made it all the way to the end of it, baiting, trying to catch it, trembling and your lips quivering..the performances of a matador (violent disorder) at times, and on other occasions, the patience of a fisherman, something not short of the labour of love. See because sometimes the end result is just that, the end. In the book I’m currently reading, ‘Modernists and Mavericks’ by Martin Gayford, there’s a quote by Bridget Riley which I believe is an important guide to what we (artists) should be doing to alleviate anxiety, at least to some extent and it goes like this, “People feel that it is very important for artists to have an aim. Actually, what’s vital is to have a beginning. You find your aim in the process of working, You discover it,”  (Gayford, 2019, p43).    
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Painting 1946,  Francis Bacon. 1946
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I have ideas that I want to speak on through my work, tough ones; dreading to have the conversations with humanity myself. The art plays this role - never with vivid explanations - I value that, because the over-explanations take away from its mystique, bores the work; the work is however always honest, revealing and necessary (cannot do without it). The audience can be witness to every vehement moment I’ve encountered with the work, if only they were to look. Being a self-taught outsider, the self-doubt is incredibly paralysing; something I’m fighting constantly with marginal success I’ll say. I never like the idea of drawing or painting like other artists, it’s great as an exercise and all, but not when your emotional interests are concerned with their personal expression.
I guess I’ve realised that being in art is inevitable and worthwhile suffering, even necessary as it is an act that brings one closer to the act of God himself. “Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart. The really great men must, I think, have great sadness on earth.” (F,Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment).
Bibliography
Dostoyevsky, F. and Garnett, C. (2018) Crime and punishment. San Diego, California: Canterbury Classics.
Gayford, M. (2019) ‘Euston Road in Camberwell’, in Modernists and Mavericks: Bacon, freud, Hockney and the London painters. London, UK: Thames & Hudson, pp. 43–43.
Watson, S. (2023) Does bipolar disorder make you more creative? what research says, Healthline. Available at: https://www.healthline.com/health/bipolar-disorder/famous-creative-people (Accessed: 01 March 2023).
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the-cricket-chirps · 6 months
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Jean-Michel Basquiat
Sam F
1985
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bconker · 16 days
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Jean-Michel Basquiat
Untitled (Peso Neto), 1981
Crayon on Notebook Paper
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