Pater (1982)
Jean-Michel Basquiat (* 22 December 1960 in New York City; † 12 August 1988 ibid.)
Acrylic, oil and colored oilstick on canvas
From the exhibition BASQUIAT. THE RETROSPECTIVE at the Albertina Museum in Vienna
"Pater is the Latin word for father. Basquiat presents a generalized archetypal father image. This father can be a hero and role moderl, but also has an air of severity and authority about him. [...]" He is "both victimizer and victim, oppressor and oppressed, winner and loser. This polarity is not least expressed through the scribbly halo over the head and the cartoonishly overdrawn male genitals." (Information text in the museum)
"Virtually no other artist comes anywhere close to being as representative of the 1980s and that decade’s pulsating New York art scene as does the brilliantly exceptional artistic phenomenon that was Jean-Michel Basquiat." www.albertina.at/en/exhibitions/basquiat/
Pater (1982)
Jean-Michel Basquiat (* 22 December 1960 in New York City; † 12 August 1988 ibid.)
Acrylic, oil and colored oilstick on canvas
From the exhibition BASQUIAT. THE RETROSPECTIVE at the Albertina Museum in Vienna
"Pater is the Latin word for father. Basquiat presents a generalized archetypal father image. This father can be a hero and role moderl, but also has an air of severity and authority about him. [...]" He is "both victimizer and victim, oppressor and oppressed, winner and loser. This polarity is not least expressed through the scribbly halo over the head and the cartoonishly overdrawn male genitals." (Information text in the museum)
"Virtually no other artist comes anywhere close to being as representative of the 1980s and that decade’s pulsating New York art scene as does the brilliantly exceptional artistic phenomenon that was Jean-Michel Basquiat." www.albertina.at/en/exhibitions/basquiat/