Jean-Michel Basquiat
Jean-Michel Basquiat Beat Bop T-Shirt
Details
This is a medium weight cotton t-shirt featuring Basquiat's album cover artwork, Beat Bop. Like the album cover, the t-shirt is printed on the front and back.
- 100% combed cotton jersey in black
- Unisex, adult size XS to 2XL; Relaxed fit (slightly looser than a classic fit)
- Made in China
- Machine wash cold with like colors; Do not bleach; Do not iron design
About the artwork: One of Jean-Michel Basquiat's most coveted works is from the record album artwork of the early hip-hop record Beat Bop that JMB produced and self-financed. Released under his own Tartown record label, the original 500 vinyl pressings are among the most valuable on the market today.
Image: Beat Bop, 1983
© Estate of Jean-Michel Basquiat
Licensed by Artestar, New York
Jean-Michel Basquiat
A poet, musician, and graffiti prodigy in late-1970s New York, Jean-Michel Basquiat had honed his signature painting style of obsessive scribbling, elusive symbols and diagrams, and mask-and-skull imagery by the time he was 20. “I don’t think about art while I work,” he once said. “I think about life.” Basquiat drew his subjects from his own Caribbean heritage—his father was Haitian and his mother of Puerto Rican descent—and a convergence of African-American, African, and Aztec cultural histories with Classical themes and contemporary heroes like athletes and musicians. Often associated with Neo-expressionism, Basquiat received massive acclaim in only a few short years, showing alongside artists like Julian Schnabel, David Salle, and Francesco Clemente. In 1983, he met Andy Warhol, who would come to be a mentor and idol. The two collaborated on a series of paintings before Warhol’s death in 1987, followed by Basquiat’s own untimely passing a year later.
