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Great commentary

Man wait til ppl read the symbol sourcebook so they can know what he was telling us

brilliant video and i completely agree, powerful

Basquiat created generational wealth for his family...that's how I see it. Dude is gonna be feeding his family for years to come from beyond the grave.

The Great JMB is rolling over in his grave .

great work

As a fellow hypocrite who bought a basquiat collab shirt off a insta ad, this was really well said. Everythings gotta be capitalized now. Now I'm wondering why I felt bad listening to the unfinished posthumous XXX album his estate released but fine buyin a cool Basquiat t shirt Good work bro

The Barbie Dollis a clue yeah. Clothing is one thing, but a doll? Hmmm

This is very well done, a profound message

thanks for the info! I don't think it's good to buy pure art just because it could be worth something. Art/Collectables is a really fine line, though.

Great analysis and comparison with Haitian zombies..I’ve also though5 people have blatantly jacking his style ( yet without the substance) all over instagram..it’s insane.

Thank you for your perspective, I’m struggling w that same issue. Was so looking forward to this H&M collab but once I tried on some of the pieces, just felt like too much too obvious perhaps exploitative and made me think whether Basquiat would allow his art to be massively produced. even though there was a lot of thought in carefully curating this collection. And the two artists behind the design are very talented in their own right. I love the bustiers especially the black bustier dress. I’m looking for reviews, because I’m not sure that I will keep the dress, little too obvious and a bit exploitative as I said before. Am I really going to wear it? Or is it more about collecting than actually wearing it once or twice? There again, I too, would be contributing to the problem of saturation, exploitation and commercialization. A very talented friend of mine said that she thinks that’s it’s OK to saturate the art because everyone should be exposed to knowing these artists. I understand that point, but it pains me to think that Basquiat will be saturated as Venus by Baccelli. Maybe we’re already there. I think the dress will go back, but I’m not sure yet I have a few more opinions to explore.❤

Great video man. Greetings from Ecuador. Didn't know that about zombies! Very informative and loved how you intertwined the original concept with his life and eventual demise.

Well, he would have done it eventually if he was still alive. Andy Warhol and Keith Haring certainly did. Why not? It’s business. I mean it’s art. But it’s ALSO business.

LOL same shit happened to Monet, chocolate boxes , tote bags, pencil cases coffee mugs etc... etc..

I think it's really cool how you've set up this shot, the lines of the window blinds compliment your art :)

i learned something, thanks! that bell hooks book is on my list now

I can’t even look at his work anymore. People have played him out.

I got so upset when I saw the Basquiat estate partnering with a LIQUOR BRAND. The man suffered and ultimately died due to his issues with addiction. insanely tone deaf. The King Pleasure exhibit also washed down his personal history outside of the family, totally ignored his biological mother, and the fact that he ran away from home.

funny even 30 years after his death he is being exploited as much as he was while alive... and dropping a line on juneteenth is also pretty evil, kinda weird too given that the audience this stuff is being sold to,. "hey yall here are some sweatshop grade clothes w some cool Basquiat designs on them, with absolutely no thought or love put into any of it, and we know how much you all love marching for the non exploitation of your people, so we thought we would release these terribly ugly clothes marked up 1000% on that one day yall go nuts about, yea.... thanks :)

i agree and i’m a hypocrite too! i was in primark a few months ago and bought a Basquiat tote bag. after i got home i thought to myself “this is…… kinda weird” and now it just sits in my house 😖

This is life and death capitalism style, a lively forest burn and reborn cycle. The artist creates with meaning, the meaning is grappled with, sometimes catches hold in the culture, it's observed disseminated and then loses its meaning and becomes a lifeless and colorless sea shell bleached by the sun, until it's smashed into pieces and becomes grains of sand and eventually fades to dust. It's sad to notice, but what else can be done? We all disappear some day even artists and their art. Sometimes the visual stays without the meaning and sometimes the idea stays (though less obviously observable)

This is so amazing and insightful!!

Subscribed. Love your channel, love your style and expression and realness. Thanks for bein you

#WeKnowTheTruth

i knew his stuff like k.haring since my childhood and this with : being white, living in Germany and my city was not that big while grown up doing graffiti as a kid... So burn ya books and check what's goin in da streets -cause: knowing bout him and his influence since 2017 & now dissing those who put him in a song... 4real!? So, He's now only yours, collecting him on Mass-produced Fashion- maybe friends of him and Futura from that time you don't even lived- and 4 sure never will understand... go find yourself before talking bout crown material!

Spot on. As a fellow black artist who’s also inspired by his work it feels like a double edged sword. I love seeing his work be praised and accepted it’s nice but to know that him and his art deserved better treatment when he was actually alive makes it feel bitter. The fact that he is not actually benefiting financially from this and that this does nothing to make his art be more respected in the “art world” but could actually serve to hurt his image as it becomes commercialized also sucks but then again it is good that his family gets some payment from all this so really it’s hard to know what’s best

what charlie parker song is this ?

It's the comodification of original creativity. It's sinister and shallow.

Ur jacket gay asf

thank you for this///RIP SAMO

Amazing video! I had to share this with one of my friends who’s a big Basquiat fan. LOVE the connection to bell hooks and the Haitian culture. Tbh I always looked as Basquiat as an artistic genius but maybe not the activist some fans wanted him to be. He critiqued white society but his day to day experience was surrounded by them in his professional AND personal life . Self exploitation through my work is something I think often about especially as a “Black Artist” that wants to honor my culture. The commodification question is one that we can never escape but I don’t feel like that “real art is ALWAYS anti-capitalistic” mentality is necessarily correct either in a capitalistic society because it leads us as artists to be stuck in financially precarious situations just to prove that we’re “pure artists” instead of being empowered to realize the value of our labor.

Totally agree with you, his work is very powerfull for it to be in a dumb marketing but in the type of consumist and social media world we live in right now, it is perhaps a way to keep on sending the power of his message and not letting it be forgotten

Jean-Michel's legacy was more protected and not uber commercialized when his father controlled the estate. After he passed, all hell broke loose with the Merch Machine (c) when his sisters took over. We will reach peak merch absurdity when we see Basquiat condoms with the image of the note on his studio door, "OUT GETTING RIBS." Good job with this analysis and the inclusion of bell hook's take on his art.

truly poignant critique. very thought provoking.

Seriously the bell hooks analysis is insane. Loved the way you tied it into the haitian zombie concept. Great video, salutations from Brazil!

I think this is spot on. Would love to do a response video giving you credit of course supporting your position if that’s ok with you.

my fav video this week

Basquiat’s Art is turning into mush.

Holy shit bruh, this was a brilliant analysis. I’m Haitian so the parallels you drawed between his current exploitation and zombies is genius. Good shit bruh

Everything in this world is commodified to the point of total saturation. Drill baby drill!

My opinion there R thousands of basquiats . He was eccentric. He was in the right place and time. His trajectory was a interesting coincidence. Was he being used? Or not. Was it luck .? Was he exploited? Or did he exploit.. its all good either way i appreciate his accomplishment. And his art tho i dont see the glorifying of it..he worked hard at it..salute to basquiat.

Though he rose to fame during the 80's artworld where rapacious capitalism was equally on the ascent, the Basquiat estate needs to reign it in and pull back on collaborations in order to protect the legacy of JMB. Scarcity increases value, not overexposure!

great video man, the music in the background is fanstastic

Not a hot take at all, you're spot on. Slightly different, but at art school there was this other white kid who copied Basquiat's style and symbolism and presented it as his own. His big piece was his studio, he literally made his space his studio and it honestly looked like some Basquiat forgery exhibit. At the time I thought maybe it was ironic because it was so brazen, but it definitely wasn't, and it really rubs me up the wrong way but no one said anything, and there were no black students in our class. Watching your video, the zombification, and hearing Bell Hooks analysis made me remember it and it made remembering the whole thing a much darker and way grosser feeling.

commodification has ruined his work for now and was inevitable but he will shine again in a few decades and over the centuries to come.

Damn bro you fuckin dope

Damn amazing video bro its good to see someone standing up for basquiat like this and i 100% agree with your take just another case of white people fetishizing black art and overlooking the message and dehumanizing him i couldn't imagine the isolation he must have felt during his life being surrounded by all that fake support

Hey. I liked your video a lot, keep it up please! made me laugh relate and learn something new . appreciate your critique.