Are Art And Science Endlessly Divided? Or Are They One And The Same? The New York Instances
This work is an excellent instance of the advanced meanings Basquiat was able to communicate and recommend via a complex visible language frequently referred to by critics as “primitive” or “naïve”. As this poignant picture reveals, Basquiat’s work was in reality extremely refined and much more technically completed than is commonly credited. Painted in the weeks earlier Art Galery than his demise, the bleakness and unhappiness of the picture and its title is only enhanced by the knowledge that the artist’s life would come to an finish far too soon shortly after its completion. Obscurity shrouds the interval between the…