When I stand in front of a painting I let the the art piece speak me..... And Jean Michelle’s paintings for me are powerful !!!!! I connect with the composition, the colors , the words,, And elements that are indiscribleable,,
This series makes me appreciate art so much more. Although the collapse of metaphysical systems and semiotic apparatuses is alienating and jarring for most, I actually find it quite liberatory, refreshing and challenging. I find modern art of the 20th century highly conceptually stimulating and thought provoking philosophically. I was recently in Florence and Rome and the endless christian metaphysical based artwork becomes relentlessly monotonous.
I love it when people who never met an other person, claim to know exactly what they were thinking. As an artist myself sometimes you paint something or a put a word down because it happens to be in front of you, it doesn't mean anything. I do this myself and Basquiat also said he did this. Not everything mean something.
Not in my experience. The unconscious is always at work in creativity, and many artists create naively and don't realize just exactly what it is they're doing. There's all kinds of semiotics going on in almost any given work of art. Meaning is laden in EVERY human activity because we are a species soaked in meaning. Just because YOU don't know what something means doesn't mean that it doesn't have a meaning.
@@johndavidebert This is true--but it is equally true that it is the viewer that injects his own meaning onto the symbol. The great artist takes the personal and elevates it to the universal; Turning the subjective into the objective
For the people saying that he is making to many assumptions about Basquiat's art he is simply observing how Basquiat's actions which were most likely led by passion and his intuition fit into our understanding of the wider metaphysical social structure that exists around us. He isn't saying that Basquiat knew all of these things he is simply observing and interpreting the actions of someone who didn't fit into the defined social structure of the time and how these actions lead to more evidence and insight regarding this metaphysical structure.
I just don’t get it. John is interpreting Jean’s art work in a very complex and analytical way yet it’s impossible to believe that Jean was cognizant of what he was doing based on John’s analysis. Jean did not even finish high school so where did he get the intelligence to created such complex art? Is this what is referred to as knowing without knowing? And while John goes about explaining away the many meanings of Jean’s work, the average person could never come to such a conclusion and if Jean wanted to express his rage against racism, there are many creative ways of doing it...the manner in which he did it leaves much to be desired considering everyone regards him as an artistic genius.
I don't think anyone knows for certain when he started using, but he was definitely already addicted by 1982, because that was the reason Madonna left him in 1983. In 1985 he reflected that once he had money, he took a lot of drugs and made the best paintings ever. He started painting on canvas in 1980, and had his first solo show in May 1981. If he started using by 1981 that's pretty much most of his career.
When I stand in front of a painting I let the the art piece speak me..... And Jean Michelle’s paintings for me are powerful !!!!! I connect with the composition, the colors , the words,,
And elements that are indiscribleable,,
This series makes me appreciate art so much more. Although the collapse of metaphysical systems and semiotic apparatuses
is alienating and jarring for most, I actually find it quite liberatory, refreshing and challenging. I find modern art of the 20th century highly conceptually stimulating and thought provoking philosophically. I was recently in Florence and Rome and the endless christian metaphysical based artwork becomes relentlessly monotonous.
I love it when people who never met an other person, claim to know exactly what they were thinking. As an artist myself sometimes you paint something or a put a word down because it happens to be in front of you, it doesn't mean anything. I do this myself and Basquiat also said he did this. Not everything mean something.
Not in my experience. The unconscious is always at work in creativity, and many artists create naively and don't realize just exactly what it is they're doing. There's all kinds of semiotics going on in almost any given work of art. Meaning is laden in EVERY human activity because we are a species soaked in meaning. Just because YOU don't know what something means doesn't mean that it doesn't have a meaning.
@@johndavidebert This is true--but it is equally true that it is the viewer that injects his own meaning onto the symbol. The great artist takes the personal and elevates it to the universal; Turning the subjective into the objective
For the people saying that he is making to many assumptions about Basquiat's art he is simply observing how Basquiat's actions which were most likely led by passion and his intuition fit into our understanding of the wider metaphysical social structure that exists around us. He isn't saying that Basquiat knew all of these things he is simply observing and interpreting the actions of someone who didn't fit into the defined social structure of the time and how these actions lead to more evidence and insight regarding this metaphysical structure.
That gold on my finger left a green ring
the Emperor's new clothes never age apparently...
I just don’t get it. John is interpreting Jean’s art work in a very complex and analytical way yet it’s impossible to believe that Jean was cognizant of what he was doing based on John’s analysis. Jean did not even finish high school so where did he get the intelligence to created such complex art? Is this what is referred to as knowing without knowing? And while John goes about explaining away the many meanings of Jean’s work, the average person could never come to such a conclusion and if Jean wanted to express his rage against racism, there are many creative ways of doing it...the manner in which he did it leaves much to be desired considering everyone regards him as an artistic genius.
GnosisMan50 So you have to finish high school to be intelligent?
@@profzoRify Mark Vallen sums up my concern about Basquait
art-for-a-change.com/blog/2005/10/basquiat-horrible.html
He was NOT addicted to Heroine his ENTIRE career please only state facts about the late Jean-Michel Basquiat.
I don't think anyone knows for certain when he started using, but he was definitely already addicted by 1982, because that was the reason Madonna left him in 1983. In 1985 he reflected that once he had money, he took a lot of drugs and made the best paintings ever. He started painting on canvas in 1980, and had his first solo show in May 1981. If he started using by 1981 that's pretty much most of his career.
yeeesh...postmodern jargon neither clarifies nor deepens understanding...