Art and Narrative: The Power of Storytelling
20 Superb Details About Art
Like a web page pulled cleanly from a daily artist’s journal, this untitled canvas options an array of Basquiat’s personal iconography and recurring symbols set against a black background and smeared patches of shiny paint. A white skull juts from the center of the ebony composition, vividly recalling the revered painter’s tradition of the memento mori – a reminder of the ephemeral nature of all life and the body’s eventual, cruel degeneration. The bone to the right of the canvas is also learn as a phallus, suggesting the illustration of Black male sexuality as threatening…Continue Reading
