The Firebrand

Media: Animation, Digital art, Oil on canvas

Year: 2020

Collection: PAK X TREVOR JONES

Size (W x H): 1080 x 1080 pixels

“I don’t listen to what art critics say. I don’t know anybody who needs a critic to find out what art is.” 

Basquiat was first discovered as a graffiti artist but began to develop his style as more Neo-Expressionist with a primitive, expressive approach. He collaborated extensively with Warhol and this relationship was hugely beneficial but in ways debilitating as the New York art scene and critics regarded Basquiat as nothing more than a ‘talentless hustler’, riding the coattails of the famous Warhol.