Jean-Michel Basquiat
Basquiat Greeting Card Assortment
Details
The Basquiat Greeting Card Assortment features 8 iconic Basquiat works. The images include a mix of jazz and pop culture references, in addition to his baroque use of text and key iconography.
• Box: 5.75 x 4.5”, 146 x 114 mm
• Notecards: 5 x 3.75”, 120 x 95 mm
• 16 notecards, 2 designs each
• 17 colored envelopes
• Sturdy giftable box; makes a great gift for art lovers.
Jean-Michel Basquiat
A poet, musician, and graffiti prodigy in late-1970s New York, Jean-Michel Basquiat had honed his signature painting style of obsessive scribbling, elusive symbols and diagrams, and mask-and-skull imagery by the time he was 20. “I don’t think about art while I work,” he once said. “I think about life.” Basquiat drew his subjects from his own Caribbean heritage—his father was Haitian and his mother of Puerto Rican descent—and a convergence of African-American, African, and Aztec cultural histories with Classical themes and contemporary heroes like athletes and musicians. Often associated with Neo-expressionism, Basquiat received massive acclaim in only a few short years, showing alongside artists like Julian Schnabel, David Salle, and Francesco Clemente. In 1983, he met Andy Warhol, who would come to be a mentor and idol. The two collaborated on a series of paintings before Warhol’s death in 1987, followed by Basquiat’s own untimely passing a year later.
