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Interestingly enough, what came to mind when viewing the piece at the :50 second mark was the image of a DNA 🧬 image. After reading the artist background and descriptions on each bellow, it reinforced my interpretation that these things that we stand for internally, that make up our DNA, can be used to make a positive change in this world. It’s a masterful way to let others know that they have the power to do something incredible. Thank you for sharing your talent with the world and I wish you the best of luck with all your future projects.
I'm an amateur artist and honestly to me this are just !!! the equivalent of the music from the backstreet boys made in the 90's, just for the sake of selling something just like Andy Warhol to me is just plain plagiarism, nothing original about it. Looks more like the LGBT community helping their own people to make a name. Honest opinion, no disrespect.
Weak signals of the collapse of the West to come when we see this exhibition whose only merit is to satisfy the temple merchants by maintaining the prices of a minor artist whose great "merit" is to have died young.
Art is what nobody else is doing... and Basquiat did that! He was perhaps tormented and troubled by American culture and society, which he accurately portrayed as the persecutor... It's sad that he felt driven to expose this but you precisely don't like it...I'm sure it touches a nerve on many spectators...I didn't think it was art initially...but it is robustly profound and incredibly mind provoking art...yes it is art! Van Gogh was tormented, and they said his paintings weren't art back at the time... History keeps recording, and the test of time will be here when we're gone... Yeah, his art will stick around...
Dunno. Most of his art is certainly crap/rubbish/garbage/basura, though...to be honest, i like 3 or 4 of his paintings. Out of around 800 or 900. It seems to me that Basquiat painted in a hurry, to make $$$ more quickly.
Basquiat fan here so I appreciate this video. Also I appreciate the fact that you emphasize the artwork and do not feel the need to provide a soundtrack.
I first found Jean-Michel's work via a BBC documentary in the early 90's. It's rawness and honesty blew my mind, it felt fresh and unrestricted. I said to myself, i'm going to own a piece of his work one day. I had no clue of the monetary value of his work , I just loved the work. Thanks for sharing.
what could be less inspiring than this hodge podge of apparently talentless folks being manipulated and promoted by shysters aimed at separating fools from their money. It does take two to tango so no one is actually being ripped off just sad to see art be so disgracefully represented by these large venues that could and IMHO should promote the real artists that struggle to define beauty and the human experience in its relation to the arts. I suppose the real winners are not actually artists but the "down your throat" agenda driven racial DEI model of curation based on "instinct, what felt energized,and different" seems like non art with no guidelines for the academic or the academy approach rather just someones off hand cultural and political correct notion of inclusion. And yes who gets to say what art is valued , we all know the market sets the dollar value and when a painting of a canvas in all white garners millions we must assume that all and any "art" is valuable. I will not stoop to that level I feel that there are intrinsic universal truths of beauty and expression that resonate within and across cultures and countries here I found none of that .
Superb - thanks so much for that excellent walk through, very well put together and several galleries have been added to my Instagram account for more detailed investigations 😊😊
Yes, FRIEZE stands for a decorative horizontal band or border, often found in architecture, and that might be the reason why both Frieze Magazine and Art Fair named themself like that. Just like friezes on facades depict series of decorative elements, both magazine and art fair consist of series of great stories about art and art exhibitions.
Thank you for the review that sums up the most important points of FRIEZE. It looks like you cleared the sight from the fair's hectic, overwhelming atmosphere even for the visitors who were already there. Looking from my room through the video to the fair, it makes a lot of sense to let you walk us around the fantastic show.
