Jean-Michel Basquiat’s ’Untitled (Skull)’: Great Art Explained

Great Art Explained totally unique merchandise available here - Please consider supporting this channel on Patreon, thanks! Or if you prefer a one-off donation - To be clear, I will NOT allow racist or abusive comments on this feed. I started “Great Art Explained“ during lockdown. My aim is to make videos which focus on one great artwork. I want to present art in a jargon free, entertaining, clear and concise way with no gimmicks. Subscribe and click the bell icon to get more arts content. Each video takes me about three weeks to a month, so I download at least once a month: In 1982 at the age of just 22 years old, Jean-Michel Basquiat would produce this painting. A powerful and dazzling image that mixes text, colour, symbolism and mark-making in a raw and uncensored explosion. In a single painting, he would use his instinctive power of visual language to say everything he wanted to say. About America - about art - and about being black in both worlds. “What a brilliant series this is“ - Stephen Fry on Twitter 12 December 2020 “Thoroughly researched and cleverly presented, with stunning visuals, Great Art Explained makes you realise that familiarity with a work of art sometimes makes us indifferent to its power“ - Forbes Magazine, 9 July 2020 CREDITS These videos are for educational purposes ONLY Thanks to Charles Xue for Chinese subtitles Thanks to Bart Vergouwe for Portugese Subtitles. Thanks to Giuliana Tomio for Spanish Subtitles All the videos, songs, images, and graphics used in the video belong to their respective owners and I or this channel does not claim any right over them. Copyright Disclaimer under section 107 of the Copyright Act of 1976, allowance is made for “fair use” for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, education and research. Fair use is a use permitted by copyright statute that might otherwise be infringing. IMAGES Jean-Michel Basquiat and Madonna ©Glenn O’Brien Andy Warhol images © The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc. Jean-Michel Basquiat, Debbie Harry, and William S. Burroughs in December 1986. ©Victor Bockris Images of Basquiat ©Roland Hagenberg Basquiat in the apartment, 1981. ©Alexis Adler. Andy Warhol and Jean Michael Basquiat photographed in New York, 10 July 1985. Image: © MICHAEL HALSBAND/Landov Jean-Michel Basquiat wearing Giorgio Armani, seating in front of his work. Photograph: Lizzie Himmel/AP/Brooklyn Museum Andy Warhol and Jean-Michel Basquiat, September 1985. Photograph: ©Richard Drew/AP Basquiat and Warhol © LIZZIE HIMMEL Basquiat inside New York City’s Vrej Baghoomian Gallery in 1988 ©Mark Sink Jean-Michel Basquiat, 1987, in his New York studio © Muna Tseng Dance Projects, Inc. Portrait of Jean-Michel Basquiat in St. Moritz © Lee Jaffe/Getty Images. Sotheby’s auction footage ©Sothebys Footage used #nav CREDITS © The Estate of Jean-Michel Basquiat/ Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York/ ADAGP, Paris. Licensed by Artestar, New York. royalty free Music by Giorgio Di Campo for FreeSound Music original video: download mp3: Music Credit: K. LOUK Track Name: “Funkman“ Music By: K. LOUK @ The K. LOUK Official Spotify is HERE - Follow k. LOUK on Instagram: License for commercial use: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported (CC BY 3.0) Music promoted by Chill Out Records - NCM