BASQUIAT UNBOUND AN INVENTIVE AND RESOURCEFUL ARTIST EMERGES FROM EXHIBIT AT MOCA.Byline: Sandra Barrera Staff Writer On a wall inside the Museum of Contemporary Art hangs what looks like a wood deck with an X-ray figure painted on it. It's called ``Gold Griot griot African tribal storyteller. The griot's role was to preserve the genealogies and oral traditions of the tribe. Griots were usually among the oldest men. In places where written language is the prerogative of the few, the place of the griot as cultural guardian is still .'' The work was produced by Jean-Michel Basquiat Jean-Michel Basquiat (IPA: [ʒɑ̃ miˈʃɛl basˈkja(t)]) (December 22 1960, Brooklyn - August 12, 1988, New York, New York) was an American artist. in 1984 in Venice, Calif., where the New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of artist spent a year of his brief but highly influential career painting. In fact, ``Gold Griot'' came about as the direct result of an experience Basquiat had while in Venice, says Fred Hoffman, who worked with the artist then and now co-curates the ``Basquiat'' retrospective at MOCA MOCA Museum of Contemporary Art MOCA Multimedia over Coax MoCA Museum of Chinese in the Americas MOCA Minnesota Ovarian Cancer Alliance MOCA Montezuma Castle National Monument (US National Park Service) Grand Avenue through Oct. 10. The career-spanning exhibition features more than 100 works, some of which were produced or shown in Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. by the artist, who died of a heroin overdose in 1988 at age 27. Though he had only painted professionally for seven years, Basquiat left behind a wealth of work, from cryptic poetry to busy collages that could take a person hours to digest. Some works were remarkable simply because of the materials he used. The picture support for ``Gold Griot,'' for example, was constructed from fencing that stood behind Basquiat's Venice studio. As Hoffman puts it, ``One morning he goes to the little courtyard in the back of his studio ... just to cool out ... and he steps over a homeless person An individual who lacks housing, including one whose primary residence during the night is a supervised public or private facility that provides temporary living accommodations; an individual who is a resident in transitional housing; or an individual who has as a primary residence a .'' The homeless regularly camped out in the corner of the enclosed patio. And so, Basquiat had the fence torn down and the patio returned to the street. On the following morning, Hoffman says Basquiat was instructing his assistants to reassemble re·as·sem·ble v. re·as·sem·bled, re·as·sem·bling, re·as·sem·bles v.tr. 1. To bring or gather together again: reassembled the band for a reunion tour. 2. the scrap wood into surfaces on which he could paint. ``It gives you insight into the validity and the mind of this young man who basically always was thinking, always was trying to observe ... and process the external world,'' Hoffman says. ``This was just an objective, very concrete example of this process ... and you can see throughout the show a wide variety of picture supports'' - from drop cloths to windows and doors, as well as loose canvases (used as the surface of the painting) that he wrapped around frames made from wood molding bound at the corners by twine twine: see cordage. . On these different surfaces, Basquiat would create icons and language about a range of subject matter. He spoke to urban culture and great black icons, including jazz musicians This is a list of jazz musicians on whom Wikipedia has articles. Some of the most notable jazz musicians
Bird Parker, Charles Christopher Parker, Parker, Yardbird Parker , and boxing heroes like Sugar Ray Robinson Noun 1. Sugar Ray Robinson - United States prizefighter who won the world middleweight championship five times and the world welterweight championship once (1921-1989) Ray Robinson, Walker Smith, Robinson . He addressed anti-materialism, racism, life and death, and his own identity as a young black man trying to make it in the art world. ``He was so insightful,'' Hoffman says. ``That's what makes the work so special. It's not an abstraction, it's not theoretical - it's very real. ``And toward that end,'' adds Hoffman, ``the work is clearly defiant, and it's tough, and it's expressive ... but I think finally (it's) positive and (it's) available.'' As part of the ``Basquiat'' exhibit, MOCA will be hosting a series of companion programs, some of which are listed below. More information is available at moca.org: Night Vision: MOCA After Dark: Party until midnight every Saturday through the exhibition's run at MOCA with art viewing, cocktails, live music, art making, screenings, DJs and more. Teens of Contemporary Art Event: A collaborative graffiti art project at 2 p.m. Oct. 2. Free admission. A Conversation With Jean-Michel Basquiat: The artist speaks openly about his life, struggles with the art world and friendship with Andy Warhol Noun 1. Andy Warhol - United States artist who was a leader of the Pop Art movement (1930-1987) Warhol in this 1983 documentary by filmmaker Tamra Davis. Screens daily during museum hours. Sandra Barrera, (818) 713-3728 sandra.barrera(at)dailynews.com BASQUIAT Where: MOCA Grand Avenue, 250 S. Grand Ave., Los Angeles. When: 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Sunday; 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday and Friday; 11 a.m. to 8 p.m. Thursday; 11 a.m. to midnight Saturday; closed Tuesday and Wednesday, through Oct. 10. Admission: $8 adults; $5 students with ID and seniors, 65 and over; free for MOCA members and children under 12. Free admission 5 to 8 p.m. every Thursday. Call (213) 626-6222. CAPTION(S): 5 photos Photo: (1 -- color) Photo by Lee Jaffe, from ``MOCA The Contemporary''catalog (2 -- color) ``Gold Griot,'' 1984 (3 -- color) Untitled, 1981 (4 -- color) ``Irony of the Negro Policeman,'' 1981 (5 -- color) ``Trumpet,'' 1984 |
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