JEAN-MICHEL BASQUIAT AND ROBERT RAUSCHENBERG –INFLUENTIAL ELEMENTS OF THEIR INTIMATE VISUAL VOCABULARY
JEAN-MICHEL BASQUIAT AND ROBERT RAUSCHENBERG –INFLUENTIAL ELEMENTS OF THEIR INTIMATE VISUAL VOCABULARY

Summary/Abstract: This paper focuses on some of the relevant aspects of the visual vocabulary of two influential artists of their time: Jean-Michel Basquiat and Robert Rauschenberg. Due to their uniqueness, both of them managed to have an impact on the artistic community ever since, by shaping their admirers – not a few – and their way of expressing themselves. Given certain appearance-related similarities of their language, paired with the fact that Rauschenberg was admired by Basquiat, this piece of writing brings both of them together, while lightly mapping their contributions to the artistic expression, with an emphasis on the usage of their technical abilities to convey shape and meaning to their intimate interests. Having mentioned that, in the present essay we will start by briefly presenting the general context related to them, the touchpoints – since they were contemporary – and then we will proceed by individually highlighting some episodes of interest in their career, while pointing out their personal, self-related, specificities.

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