Irony of a Negro Policeman (1981)
Jean-Michel Basquiat (* 22 December 1960 in New York City; † 12 August 1988 ibid.)
Acylic and oilstick on wood
From the exhibition BASQUIAT. THE RETROSPECTIVE at the Albertina Museum in Vienna
"... Basquiat shows the police officer here as a black man. The title alludes to the brutal police violence, sharply criticized by him, against African American citizens by casting the oppressed in the role of the authoritarian oppressor..." (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/
Irony of a Negro Policeman (1981)
Jean-Michel Basquiat (* 22 December 1960 in New York City; † 12 August 1988 ibid.)
Acylic and oilstick on wood
From the exhibition BASQUIAT. THE RETROSPECTIVE at the Albertina Museum in Vienna
"... Basquiat shows the police officer here as a black man. The title alludes to the brutal police violence, sharply criticized by him, against African American citizens by casting the oppressed in the role of the authoritarian oppressor..." (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/