Basquiat: Through the Eyes of a Friend
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 29 ก.ย. 2024
- On the occasion of Sotheby’s upcoming sale of Jean-Michel Basquiat’s extraordinary Untitled, 1982, filmmaker Tamra Davis reflects on her friendship with the artist - from their first meeting at the beginning of his career, to the many hours she spent with him in his studio, filming him as he worked. She recalls Basquiat's love of music, his insatiable curiosity and his unshakeable belief in his own prodigious talent. Twenty years after Basquiat’s death, Davis unearthed her footage and directed Jean-Michel Basquiat: The Radiant Child - a definitive work that provides rare and moving insight into one of the most important artists of our time. Untitled, 1982 leads Sotheby’s Contemporary Art Evening sale on 18 May in New York.
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Brilliant artist. I owned a gallery in the east village in the 80s and had the privilege to be in the mix of that raw creativity of art, music, and activism ( Act Up, Guerilla Girls...) Silence = Death. Take care all.
I have sooo many questions. Amazing.
Stop lying
She spoke really well of him. ✨
I'm in love with this guy. Didn't know anything about him but dreamt about him every night for over a week ! He's beautiful
I love how he was so gentle and quiet, but allowed his art to shout the words and messages for him ❤️
I feel the same way. I would have loved to have met him! 💕💕💕
Well said! This interview made me smile.
Only non painter i have ever heard who “ got” what he was doing. Not SAMO. Beautiful. Ty.
He can’t really describe his work because he’s not thinking he’s just letting it come out. That’s working from a true creative state not putting anything on something just letting it flow and be without trying.
Love his art..⚡⚡⚡😍
EXCELENTE buen pintor,espontáneo y creativo hhh
Wonderful!!
Lover Basquiat artwork ❤️❤️great Vidio dovumenter....
I’m confused why does everyone only mention that he is African American and not say he was both Puerto Rican and Haitian? Most say he is black? I love knowing about both sides.
@TUbIuyola yes he was not just black he is celebrated in the Hispanic culture as well. I just love learning about the whole person not just one part. Celebrate all he is.
Because if we’re keeping it a buck, he was the kind of Puerto Rican that a lot of Hispanics don’t like (aka Black).
be nice to see them in person think they'd affect me more deeply
I felt, the I saw. He evolves me. I see the portrait that is of a human who has been caught with their mask off.
Haitian influences 💯
Weed and art go together like Adam and Eve.
1:24 Bam!
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Energetic. 🫀
You are so blessed to have known him. He was an incredible human monument to art genius.
Beautiful.
I really wasn’t Impressed with Basquiat’s work when I saw the magazines. It looked to me like primitive child like Crap that was thrown together. I hated it. Then I got the opportunity to go to an exhibit where his work was being shown. Seeing the work in person totally changed my perspective. You cannot appreciate the power in those pieces unless you are there personally looking at them. Does she have size overwhelms you and changes any opinion you have of the work just by looking at it in a tiny picture. Seeing his work up close and personal made me appreciate his visionIngenious
Uh one can definitely appreciate it.
From wich film it is taken from?
The radiant child
Carys Jones i can’t find this documentary on TH-cam Bummer
@@brasero20000 th-cam.com/video/QMkkkf_MPw4/w-d-xo.html hopefully this should work ??
Opened the door for a lot of African american artist? He opened the door for a lot of artist period. There's only one race and that's human.
sam bryant lol shut the fuck up.
sam bryant and he wasn't African American he was born in USA father was from Haiti and mother was from Puerto Rico both in the Caribbean
Yara Serrano Still black dingus. The African diaspora was a thing
solt james She meant in the Blue Chip art gallery world for young artists. It was those exclusive doors that didn't historically open to exhibit and represent artists with melanin. Now, the paradigm has shifted.
@Rita Eric right on
I didnt like this, feels like the wrong friend to talk about him
Why?
@@catalinaramirez1476 it remain à personal opinion but you see, i watched this documentary were all the people Who knew him shared stories and all, and Some of them seemed closer to him, or at least like they understood better his artistic vision
Amel khadidja I get it. She seems more like an observer of who he was.
Crap
I love Basquiat and have always been a fan. It's always after their death they romanticize them. When they were alive they are taken for granted. Now all these limousine liberals who wouldn't want him especially in their neighborhoods are profiting off him. Sad.
Same story probably waits for me since I’m an artist....
@@artgallery7376 many are doesn´t mean you will be treated the same way
He was extremely successful during his lifetime and hanged-out also with yuppies. He was producing very quickly - the paintings on the initial exhibitions were already being sold, at that time, for around 35000 dls each, and achieved internacional success during his lifetime - he was seeking for it and achieved it. Friends said that he didn’t use a bank account and loads of money were spread around the house, inside the books, money behind the pillows on The sofa... with parties happening there and lot’s of gourmet - a free Spirit, he enjoyed his success and alSo enjoyed To hang-out with the yuppies speculators of the 80’s That gave him a platform. He was already a familiar face at studio 54 parties, etc etc before Starting to produce for the gallery.
@@artgallery7376 change the narrative
@@STRENGTHSKATEBOARDS Thank you
Extremely handsome man.
you'd smash !
Ugly as fuck with bad pocked up skin. Idk wtf Madonna saw in him?
@@papersack4290 Creativity.
What if he's not famous artist??.lol
@@papersack4290 haha you're kidding right?
looking at him you could say he was smart even if you did not know him at all
This guy is the BASQUIAT OF COMEDY
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He made no mistakes. Everything was purposeful and distinct to his struggle. His visions exploded on every canvas.
he made one.
drugs is his only mistake
This is a high quality film, right?
AYEEEEEE🔥🔥
To me it seems like NY came to life and became a painter. Messy, colorful, gritty, dirty, ugly, soulful, bright, dark, lively. If I could only meet one artist in my life it would be him.
Thank you so much for posting this. Thank you so much.
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SHARE H!S V!S!0N check the Basquiat film on my page! Pretty rare
My favorite artist. I have a Basquiat shower curtain.
One of my greatest experiences was accidentally meeting and having an opportunity to draw Bruce Springsteen at a Basquiat exhibit. There was this room that had a giant autograph book where fans could sign the names or draw pictures and it themselves I chose to do caricatures since I was a caricature street artist at the time. A man appeared in front of me who had an interesting face and Gotay and I started laughing and joking with him while making fun of his face and his goatee. He seemed to enjoy the exchange and happily stood in front of me while I drew him and chatted on and on. After I finished the drawing he smiled and left with his family and I kept drawing in the book. Suddenly one of the curators came up to me excitedly and said to me“Do you know what you just drew!?“ “Yeah I replied, I just drew a guy who had a funny looking goatee“ she replied “you just drew Bruce Springsteen!“As soon as she said it my mind put all the pieces together and I was shocked! I realize that I was in such a zone, caricatures wise, that I didn’t really focus on his total appearance just the parts of his face that I was drawing individually. He seem to enjoy the whole exchange probably for once in his life he was treated like a regular guy and not a celebrity!
Basquiat transcends expectations of what "art" can be, which is really quite phenomenal when considering his conceptual and artistic predecessors. It seemed as though everything had already been done but Basquiat came in like an unseen commet and shook the art world in a way no one has since. Whether you agree with the aesthetic of his work or not is rather inconsequential to the legitimacy of his significance. Conceptualization is far more important than simply making something "pretty" or "right." Art is about expanding our worlds and attempting to grasp the very concept of life... And life is not always pretty. If you don't understand where he came from, the context of his work, how that affected others, please don't embarrass humanity by posting ignorant commentary. No one cares whether you like it or not. So don't put it on your wall, bugger off, and find something more enjoyable for yourself to engage in.
Exactly I'll never understand why people waste their own time to spew something other than positivity. Not every soul is pure clearly.
I think you hit the nail on the head. He is and was a awesome artist!
Rita Eric it takes a loser to know a loser! But basquiat measured up to more than u will ever be to this world. 😂😂👋🏾👋🏾
hyperbole guacamole mixiut if a 30 cent packet add watah
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Shit gets called out.
Little Mary Sunshine.
Basquiat and Sotheby's for the 110 MILLION dollar sale! Greatest artist of his generation.
And he didn’t get a dime
@@gregpitts5157
Da fuq!
I appreciate this woman. She was truly a good friend to Jean as it appears today. I hope her heart is true! Respect to Basquiat you truly are the best artist to me and revolutionized art culture
"The psychic cost of all this visual pollution is incalculable." LOL
'Grey's Anatomy' !!!!!!
Some enlightened Momma 💔
this boy's look and style is timeless... he'd be a top model nowadays. I never get bored of JMB... says a lot about someone who's been dead for 32 years. a one-off.
lol now is a fucking rehash he probably wouldn´t have wanted to be part of it
top model? wow that's like an insult in comparison to what he actually was which was someone who had talent
Mike D from the Beastie Boys is married to Tamra Davis. cool couple.
Holy fuck! Think they met through Basquiat?
gnarmarv2 no
Great artist! As a self taught artist, I sold my first painting for 8k at a gallery in wynwood. So far I’ve done art basel 6 times
Ay, congrats
Wow that’s amazing!!! Congratulations!!
i've been to wynwood many times! i live in north miami. i hope i could pull that off like you
Nice were can I see pictures of your art?
Greg Pitts that’s really good. I really like red tide
He seems like such a cool dude to be friends with
he died freindless and alone ok?
When I was young and I mean prior to my teens it was Van Gough that captivated me . Once I started looking at other artists, I found Jackson Pollock and soon thereafter it was Warhol. What I mean that the visceral response was very interesting. I felt that way Basquiat's work too but it was my twenties or late teens. There were a lot artists in nyc back in the 80's and his work was in a league of its own.
Loved him so much, but he was tragic. 😢
JMB R.I.P. AND THANK GOD FOR YOUR ART IT FEEDS THE SOUL
rasuperstar You have bad taste.
We are blessed with so many known & unknown Artists in different fields of " self - expression ". I love them all & do hope, THEY just keep coming more & more, to light up our World as STARS do. This lovely & very talented young man is another big Star in our Milky Way galaxy und beyond🍻
ONLY REAL NIGGAS KNOW WHAT TAG THIS IS
“THIS A HIGH QUALITY FILM RIGHT?”
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An artful lesson be at the right place but stay away from the wrong time and you can enjoy your fruits .
Jean-Michel Basquait was a rarity the world will never see again 💚💚💚🇮🇪💚💚💚
This is truly such an intimate, and mesmerizing look inside a beautiful connection between so many complex and universal mysteries yet so profound and personal. Such a uplifting and spirited set of memories full of authenticity and loved shared between friends and family. Thank you!
Afro-Latino, Puerto Rican & Haitian artists
David Ferreira 👍
People in the 80s hated to talk about their paintings
“Downtown New York was cheap…”
It was so much easier to become a legend back then. Too much saturation now. And being enigmatic is a liability in most cases. There are so many talented artists and creatives now and everyone can put there art out for the world too see. As opposed to people being talked about snd discovered by traditional outlets. Its much harder to differentiate and standout now. Like if Jean-Michel was born in the 90s and an adult now he would probably wouldn’t be “Basquiat” Social Media has changed the game unfortunately. Its not impossible but it’s definitely different. Virgil Abloh maybe is a legend of our day and future generations in fashion and art will speak of him but he’s going to be replaced in a few years unless he manages to pull off a Lagerfeld and even then he still has to keep up commercially his true essence is hindered by the “importance” of making money. Anyone who doesn’t think so is ignorant.
Saying anyone that doesn’t agree is ignorant.
Objectively it’s easier to make it now
lol virgil abloh raids our cultures styles maybe get a fucking clue
Well I see your point however,it’s easier to get your work out there now...back then you had to know someone or link up with a gallery to get the exposure...
So in that respect it’s easier now BUT it’s the saturation now that makes it more difficult to stand out.
So so many great artists in our time that won’t get the recognition they deserve.
There was an informal interview asking students from Central Saint Martins (UAL) how they were promoting their art work - if through websites, social media(?) etc - and one student gave a very clever answer. (An art student, a bit blasé with a cool vibe) He just said - He doesn’t loose time with website or promoting online he just goes to the good galleries in London at opening nights and he reinforced “the circuit is small” :) so... it's a very smart strategy. The Art collectors, Curators, etc, want to know you personally, at the events, not online. So in some areas online promotion can be a waste of time, hiding in home instead of reaching new worlds.
"Now Here's a little Story I've got ta tell" -Mike D
We are so lucky that we have this footage!
did he pass away from overdose?
Yes. I believe it was herion. Warho! Said he had torn his septum with cocaine and JM "wanted to be on something". Tragic.
BLACK GUY , GREAT ARTIST LETS MAKE A LOT OF MONEY, OH HE'S MY BEST FRIEND THEY USED THE SHIT OUT OF HIM END OF STORY
EXCELLENT VIDEO, THANKS SO MUCH !!!!!!
Thank you for your wonderful documentary! He's totally awesome, and i Really appreciated this interview ❤🎉❤
Where is the art Mecca today?
whoever that was on the tv around 3:20 when she says "movie he might be looking at" , ws getting THEE SHYT slapped out of them lol. damn
So many nice words and caring words ONCE hes famous. Then x2 when hes a MARDYR. People are funny.
Is the music at the very beginning from Basquiats band...?
Wondrous! He seems like Beauty Absolute to me 💔
The title of the full documentary is '
'Jean Michel Basquiat -- The Radiant Child' .....totally fitting!
I go onto Pinterest for a glimpse of the beauty & presence of that face!
Looking forward to purchasing the DVD -- happy that so much is.available on A- - - - N, including a 'real film' with Bowie as Warhol, & Jeffrey Wright as The Man 💔
Such beautiful art, so moving. You can see his drug use in his skin, such a sad ending.
@2:08 ... young Jack Black?
So his story lives on, but his work was owned by who and who gets a profit?
He should have stayed close to the fam. Rip young King!
intimate doc, loved it
One thing I really resent and regret about myself is not getting involved in this. I am a visual artist who lived through all this and felt that I really should’ve taken part in this revolution that was taking place and sweeping New York. I definitely had the talent and style to be recognized when I didn’t have with the heart to put myself out there and as a result I’m not even Considered a “also ran” it’s a terrible feeling looking back reading about someone else and saying to yourself “ I should have, I could have!”
Just believe and do the learning on your own and use your inner child imagination and creativity and you to will get there don't copy other's people's art just take reference color skims but do your on expression based on your life and time experience that is what JMB made
I love the backstory, as much as the success.....
she's Beautiful, wow. this Guy had it all, it's a shame he died
what a lovely loyal friend
fake great artist.
Them drugs used to mess his skin up
All white Sotheby's talking about Basquiat. Give me a break. How many black people do they employ. Probably just 1.
They're just trying to profit from his popularity. They stand for everything that he stood against.
What did he stand against, Sam.
Bon Mot he stood against the art establishment in every way
and they call themselves his "friends" , we all know none of these were ever his friends. i can't imagine him having any of these vultures as friend. they are acquaintances.
Lechiffresix six - Tamra was his friend. She's not employed by Sothebys.
@@dizmop Sure - that's why he took millions from Bruno Bischofsberger and hung out with Warhol and the like. Get a grip. It was a mutually greedy relationship - he used them to get money to put in his arm and they used him to get people into the galleries and auction houses. He was no saint.
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Wow, this one really good interview on my favorite 20th century artist
I know somebody with unseen Basquiats, maybe she could Identify them?! how do I get a hold of her?
Un génie
2:18 - 2:31
2:18 - 2:31
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If only people could understand how important a space away from other people really is for a creative.
What compels Davis to help Sothebys sell this painting? Was it hers?
Bon Mot no, it was his family’s
1:28 thats some hardcore gum smacking
Now I know where the weeknd got his iconic hair from
gr8 piece and like the works of Basquiat a timeless doc by Tamra Davis
Really sucks that he died at only 27. Surely his death has attributed to the way his art is percieved and to the enigma that is Basquiat but it still suck that he was so young. Would've loved to just chat with him and smoke a joint, he seemed like a really cool, down to earth creative person who was just having fun with it.
Been to the abc no Rio many times..played shows there. It's gone now. What a lovely hole in the floor.
Observing. What the artist creating ☆
never anyone else like him again
"I know people who have sold those things" -Through the Mouth of a "Friend"
One hell of a lot of skulls. I kind of get it.
did untitled sell on may 18th?
Damn he was fine..and he was hot and hung too
Awesome interview. Thanks for sharing.
Basquiat greater
he has nice eyes
I love the backstory, as much as the success.....
I'm sorry. I have met Al Diaz....Basquiats art partner under the tag SAMO.....this is not an accurate accounting of Jean-Michel. He was definitely smart. He was also calculating, manipulative, mean, and angry.
Ultimately, the art world and fame wasn't the liberating vehicle that Basquiat fantasized about. Rather it was a noose that choked every bit of his humanity outta him til there was no more. Basquiat is both a hero and a cautionary tale.
VIVA PUERTO RICO!
Tamra Davis is a treasure, what an awesome video!