Echoes of Emotion: Exploring the Depths of Neo-Expressionism
Neo-Expressionism: Painting After the End of Certainties In the grand tapestry of art history, Neo-Expressionism emerges as a vivid, turbulent
Read More
Jean-Michel Basquiat
Jean-Michel Basquiat (1960–1988) was an American artist whose paintings combined graffiti, drawing, anatomical references, historical symbols and fragments of language. Emerging from New York’s downtown scene, he developed a raw and instantly recognisable visual language that confronted race, power, colonialism, fame and cultural exploitation.
This section explores Basquiat’s paintings, drawings and collaborations, as well as his relationship with street culture, Neo-Expressionism and the international art market. It also examines how an artist once associated with creative marginality became one of the most celebrated and commercially valuable figures in contemporary art.