Hollywood Africans In Front of The Chinese Theater With Footprints of Movie Stars
By Jean-Michel Basquiat
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The Edition of 60, Which Is Related To The Widely Known 1983 Artwork Hollywood Africans, Owned By The Whitney Museum of American Art, Depicts Basquiat With Friends, The Artists Toxic And Rammellzee. The Subject of The Work Memorializes A Time When All Three Artists Were In Los Angeles During BasquiatÝs Second Exhibition At The Larry Gagosian Gallery. The Work, A Commentary On The Stereotyping And Marginalizing of African Americans In The Entertainment Industry, Led Them To Coin The Term And Refer To Themselves As The hollywood Africans.
Equal Parts Poet And Painter, Basquiat Challenged The Art World Binary of High And Low, Merging European And primitiveÑ Through A Neo-Expressionist, Painterly Style That Is Nearly Impossible To Categorize. The Posthumous Release Is Stamped And Signed By Lisane Basquiat And Jeanine Heriveaux, The ArtistÝs Sisters And Administrators of The Estate of Jean-Michel Basquiat.
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| Medium: | Screen Print On 4-Ply Museum Board |
| Year: | 1983/2015 |
| Size: | 38.5 X 84 inches |
| Edition: | of 60 |
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The Edition of 60, Which Is Related To The Widely Known 1983 Artwork Hollywood Africans, Owned By The Whitney Museum of American Art, Depicts Basquiat With Friends, The Artists Toxic And Rammellzee. The Subject of The Work Memorializes A Time When All Three Artists Were In Los Angeles During BasquiatÝs Second Exhibition At The Larry Gagosian Gallery. The Work, A Commentary On The Stereotyping And Marginalizing of African Americans In The Entertainment Industry, Led Them To Coin The Term And Refer To Themselves As The hollywood Africans.
Equal Parts Poet And Painter, Basquiat Challenged The Art World Binary of High And Low, Merging European And primitiveÑ Through A Neo-Expressionist, Painterly Style That Is Nearly Impossible To Categorize. The Posthumous Release Is Stamped And Signed By Lisane Basquiat And Jeanine Heriveaux, The ArtistÝs Sisters And Administrators of The Estate of Jean-Michel Basquiat.
