Essay/Ensayo: Jean Michel Basquiat ( o El Arte Genetico )
Part 1
During years and after Basquiat death many critics and art curators had speculated about the meaning of the frequent symbol of a crown's like shape appearing in most of its work. In my understanding this symbolism attached to Jean Michel is always related to its life struggle as a young ethnic artist symbolizing failure to an American Society who smartly start really understanding its position on the capitalist economical system.
In this period every ethnicity stablished in the multicultural nation start comprehending racism on the path to success and liberal thinking when trying to be part of a post war Academy that soon pointed the direction where art supposed to go and to whom and where art supposed to belong.There were also a Moral collapse counting from Michel's point of view not only economical but Cultural ? Where was the Academy or The Cultural Society based on freedom and equality ?
It will be fare to mention that event though Basquiat was a self thought artist as many of the geniuses in history with tremendous amount of intuition also he was a young artist who found himself enlightened by the urban life of the original Concrete Jungle ! The great New York City in the decade of the 1980's a very expensive journey that erase him physically from the face of the planet.
Part 2
Analyzing his Artistic Work, it will be interesting to observe how the artist seems from the very beginning to have a great connection to its ancestry and the wisdom of PreColombian Cultures, it was gifted with a passional and natural understanding of a term that I will like to title Organic Thinking* and refers in the area of Mythology.
In many of his pieces just as he related to his immediate reality he also and in great demand reproduces Pre-Hispanic hieroglyphics. Jean-Michel "Basquiat" legacy should give us the confident understanding about its comprehension on terms that range could go from Agriculture to Economical topics and how this affect our life daily basis.
Designed almost as a pure representation of old cultures "Codices" the artist include readings of architectural dimensions planes on Temperature, Time and Space guiding you no only in a particular individual experience but as a map to learn class, religion and political reality just as a Mayan or Inca Code in the XVII or XVIII centuries.
Will be also pertinent to reflect about the probability that being a wiser mind lead by understandable political criticism towards the state as hermetic control Basquiat decide to reproduce monolitos on its hieroglyphic poetry represented on arquitectural vocabulary to express universal perspectives on life and to manifest opinions and messages for his contemporaries.
Part 3
Statement
After all this gathering of information motivated by my passion for the life and works of Jean Michel "Basquiat" I came to the conclusion that the The Crown represent the fracture of a cycle or a contract and what we only see is the down part of the Modern broken Code as the remains ancient ruins.
Vocabulary
* This anti-thesis apply for any race in the globe and could be deliver perhaps from its only outlet located in the subconscious mind of humans, just as we got our parents or gran parents, hair color, gracious neck or long eyelashes, we can get also mind kind profiles or fragments of memory from our ancestors.
by The Shortfellow
Started in New York City
02/13
Finished in New York City
10/06/14
Note from the author
This text is make by independent thinking gathered from personal education based in asumptions and empirical research and needs to be read more as a Written Art than as a Philosophical Literature.
The Shortfellow
(Mexico City, 1979)
