At @ 6:41, Basquiat says "I never went to an art school. I failed the art courses that I did take in school... I learned about art by looking at it, by going to museums.." And he read voraciously. A lot of the iconography, the vocabulary of symbols that he used, are from "Flash of The Spirit".👑🎨
Two major NYC exhibitions each featured huge works by Basquiat recently: "Flight Into Egypt" and "Edges of Ailey". His work is always of the moment and relevant.
I couldn't stand the line of questioning of the person doing this interview btw.
Also, it’s easier to be in flow when rent isn’t 3/4 or more of your monetary output. Artists/people are far more isolated today. Still - we persist, but the energy in the world, in NYC is very different than it was in the 20th century. The hustle is different. Cost of living changes everything.
True.
All that said - I love Basquiat and I wish he was still here. And the other things mentioned in the video are true.