Jean-Michel Basquiat
Jean-Michel Basquiat Cassius Clay Hoodie
Details
Add a pop of color to your hoodie collection with this piece in a blood-red ground. This hoodie features Basquiat's artwork, Cassius Clay, at the back and sleeve.
- 100% Cotton, Medium-weight fleece
- In Pompeian Red
- Fleece lined hood
- Features heavy gauge round drawcord and nickel eyelets
- Ribbing at cuffs and waistband
- Printed artwork appears on the back with printed details on the sleeves
- Machine wash cold with like colors. Do not bleach. Tumble dry low. Do not iron design
© Estate of Jean-Michel Basquiat.
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.
