Basquiat-style Artists

In 1985, the New York Times Magazine featured a shoeless Jean-Michel Basquiat on its cover. Titled “New Art, New Money," it was not just about the artist, but its focus was really the vague concept of the “art star". Basquiat ran away from home at 17 to live in New York, couch-surfing and starting off his career as a graffiti artist spray-painting walls under the pseudonym SAMO. By the early 80s, race explicitly entered his work for the first time, reflecting a growing consciousness of his own position within the New York art world. Through his paintings, there was a desire to depict the Black community in unprecedented ways. Sadly, Basquiat died at just 27 in 1988, leaving behind an iconic legacy in Basquiat style art.

Brooklyn-based artist Genesis Tremaine is best known for her bold and abstract paintings of Black subjects set against monochromatic backdrops. The fragmented faces in Tramaine's portraits speak to the many facets and complexities of Black personhood. For Tramaine, the process of creating is spiritual and much of her inspiration comes from the graffiti scene of 1980s New York, like works in the Basquiat style. Similarly Tarek is heavily inspired by Basquiat and even published the first book on graffiti to come out in Europe. Works by Aboudia also echo an innate interest in graffiti and in turn demonstrate the shift in the importance of such an art movement. As you dive into our collections you'll notice just how much the Basquiat style art legacy lives on.

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Print Goldorak #4

Baby Graffiti

Bean and Eggs

Spicy pop

City of sound

Wolf

Sans titre

Sans titre

Le Roi

Burn Hollywood Burn

Goldorak

Masque Cubik

Il me dit que je suis belle

I’m getting old

Viva la vida

Umbrella

Parler d’ma vie

Le génie de la télé

La boite à fil

Le Roi du Monde #2

Le Roi du Monde #3

Le Roi du Monde

Paris Groove

Mask

Geometric #2

Geometric #1

Les Pirates Skull

Mask 2

Sans titre (1)

Masque jovial

Goldorak Totemik

Harry Pfizer

Masque totemic #9

Filoch fuchsia

Vinyl the space cowboy

Sans titre

Sans titre (5)

Campbell's Chicken

I Hit The Jackpot

Parc fermé

La minute de silence

I will try

C’est bon que tu sois là

Gotham city

Behind the life

Skullizm

Winter is Coming

Skull of Goldorak

Mask

Lego 6

Dog Robot

X-mas

Three little birds

Skull

L'esprit des Bois

Tribal

Metropolis

Skull art

Orange skull

In gold we trust

Skull by nature

Rex

Inferno

Secrets handshakes and bizarre rituals

Sattellite trunk

Street Art Time-1