Jean-Michel Basquiat
Jean-Michel Basquiat (French pronunciation: [ʒɑ̃ miˈʃɛl baskija]; December 22, 1960 – August 12, 1988) was an American artist. He first achieved notoriety as part of SAMO, an informal graffiti duo who wrote enigmatic epigrams in the cultural hotbed of the Lower East Side of Manhattan during the late 1970s where the hip hop, post-punk, and street art movements had coalesced. By the 1980s, he was exhibiting his neo-expressionist paintings in galleries and museums internationally. The Whitney Museum of American Art held a retrospective of his art in 1992.
Basquiat's art focused on "suggestive dichotomies", such as wealth versus poverty, integration versus segregation, and inner versus outer experience. He appropriated poetry, drawing, and painting, and married text and image, abstraction, and figuration, and historical information mixed with contemporary critique.
Basquiat used social commentary in his paintings as a "springboard to deeper truths about the individual", as well as attacks on power structures and systems of racism, while his poetics were acutely political and direct in their criticism of colonialism and support for class struggle. He died of a heroin overdose at his art studio at age 27.
Basquiat (film)
Basquiat is a 1996 American biographical drama film directed by Julian Schnabel and written by Lech J. Majewski and John Bowe based on the life of American postmodernist/neo expressionist artist Jean-Michel Basquiat. Basquiat, born in Brooklyn, used his graffiti roots as a foundation to create collage-style paintings on canvas.
Jeffrey Wright portrays Basquiat, and David Bowie plays Basquiat's friend and mentor Andy Warhol. Additional cast members include Gary Oldman as a thinly-disguised Schnabel, Michael Wincott as the poet and art critic Rene Ricard; Dennis Hopper as Bruno Bischofberger; Parker Posey as gallery owner Mary Boone; and Claire Forlani, Courtney Love, Tatum O'Neal, and Benicio del Toro in supporting roles as "composite characters".
The film was written by Schnabel and Michael Thomas Holman, who was also credited for story development, with story by Lech J. Majewski and John F. Bowe. Holman, a former member of theatrical rock group The Tubes, had first met Basquiat in 1979 and together that year they founded an experimental, industrial/electronica group called Gray.
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Abschieds Souvenier
by: PussycatAls Erinnerung bleibt mir nur dein Abschieds-Souvenir
und ich trag' es bei mir Tag und Nacht.
Jedesmal
immer dann wenn ich nicht mehr weiter kann
sagt es:"deine Tränen geh'n vorbei..."
doch allein sein ist schwer und du fehlst mir so sehr.
mein Herz hat Sehnsucht nach dir - nach dir.
Laß mich nie mehr allein
la0 mich lieb zu dir sein.
Warum liegt neben mir nur dein Abschieds-Souvenir ?
Komm zurück
bleib mir treu
schenk' mir Liebe auf's Neu
aber nie mehr ein Abschieds-Souvenir.
Alles hat seine Zeit
Liebesfreud und Liebesleid.
Doch wie lange bin ich schon allein
und wie oft hat die Nacht falsche Hoffnung mir gemacht.
Ich seh' die schönsten Bilder von uns zwei'n:
wie im Film hinterher wird die Leinwand dann leer
und mir bleibt nur die Sehnsucht nach dir - nach dir.
es kaum
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