Basquiat documentary 2018 jesus

Whether you encounter his art in a museum, in a house, on a T-shirt, or on social media, Jean-Michel Basquiat’s urgent, frenetic interpretation of our world is unmistakable. From the bulging discolored eyes and sharp protruding jaw of Untitled (Head), to the jazz musicians sporadically surrounded by crossed-out words in Horn Players, his paintings reconfigure our world.

The artist who made these works is not iconic simply because he was the first modern American to sell a painting for over $100 million, or because he died at the eerie age of 27. He’s legendary because the coded visual language he created continues to keep audiences engaged in a quest to understand him better.

Basquiat documentary 2018 jesus

That quest has inspired a dizzying number of movies about his life, including the 1996 biopic Basquiat, a 2010 documentary, and a 2018 documentary specifically about his teenage years. There are also more than ten major books about him.

The new American Masters BBC Studios documentary, Basquiat: Rage