Detail View: ADJUNCT MODULE D: WORLD ART: Obnoxious Liberals
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Collection:
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ADJUNCT MODULE D: WORLD ART
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Preferred Title:
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Obnoxious Liberals
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Image View:
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Overall view
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Creator:
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Jean-Michel Basquiat (American painter, 1960-1988)
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Location:
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repository: Broad Museum (Los Angeles, California, United States) B-BASQ-2P84.22
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Location Note:
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221 S. Grand Avenue
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GPS:
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+34.0544-118.251
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Date:
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1982 (creation)
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Cultural Context:
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American
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Style Period:
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Neo-Expressionist; Twentieth century
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Work Type 1:
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painting (visual work)
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Classification:
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Paintings
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Material:
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acrylic paint; oilstick; spray paint on canvas
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Technique:
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drawing (image-making); painting and painting techniques
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Measurements:
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68 in (height) x 102 in (width)
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Subjects:
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abstraction; caricatures or satire; contemporary (1960 to present); typography or calligraphy; political satire; social commentary
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Description:
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Basquiat’s iconography reflects the precocious breadth of his inspirations and preoccupations, from classical poetry to human anatomy, from sport to music, from politics to philosophy, from the arts of Africa to Picasso, de Kooning, and Rauschenberg. Obnoxious Liberals (1982) and Baby Boom (1982) suggest an angry bohemian’s pet peeves with contemporary mores. "Samson" appears in this painting which is a variant of his former graffiti tag, SAMO. (Source: Gagosian Gallery [website]; https://gagosian.com)
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Collection:
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Archivision Adjunct Module D: World Art
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Identifier:
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7A1-BASQUIAT-OL-A01
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Rights:
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© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.
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