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\nIn 1982 at the age of just 22 years old, Jean-Michel Basquiat would produce this painting. A powerful and dazzling image that mixes text, colour, symbolism and mark-making in a raw and uncensored explosion.In a single painting, he would...\nIn 1982 at the age of just 22 years old, Jean-Michel Basquiat would produce this painting. A powerful and dazzling image that mixes text, colour, symbolism and mark-making in a raw and uncensored explosion.

In a single painting, he would use his instinctive power of visual language to say everything he wanted to say. About America - about art - and about being black in both worlds.

\"What a brilliant series this is\" - Stephen Fry on Twitter 12 December 2020

\"Thoroughly researched and cleverly presented, with stunning visuals, Great Art Explained makes you realise that familiarity with a work of art sometimes makes us indifferent to its power\" - Forbes Magazine, 9 July 2020\n
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16:34
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9th - Higher Ed
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\nGreat Art Explained\n\n
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2021
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English
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modern art, graffiti, musicians, anatomy, artists, painting, art techniques, andy warhol, pop art, printmaking, new york, drugs
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