A few years ago a Christie’s spokesperson described him, pointedly, as “the most collected artist of sportsmen, actors, musicians and entrepreneurs”. But over the past few years, his star has been on the rise and even those who are snooty about his art can’t argue with his cultural influence. Museums rejected him as a jumped-up wall-sprayer. There was a time in the 1990s when he was dismissed as a lightweight. Since he died, Basquiat has had a mixed reputation. You could stand in front of a Basquiat painting and be fascinated for hours. (Not sex, though: though he had lots of partners, his paintings are rarely erotic.). It’s beautiful and hectic, young and old, graphic, arresting, packed with ambiguous codes there’s a questioning of identity, especially race, and a sampling of life’s stimuli that takes in music, cartoons, commerce and institutions, as well as celebrities and art greats. To me, a non-art critic, his work is fantastic: it feels contemporary, with a chaotic, musical sensibility. Some art connoisseurs find his work hard to take seriously others, though, have an immediate, almost visceral response. He lived hard and died harder (from an unintentional heroin overdose), and had more of the rock-star persona than the art aesthete about him, a cool celebrity sparkle that didn’t always work in his favour. That was the norm, to be a polymathīasquiat the man and Basquiat the painter are hard to untangle. I totally, 100% knew they were going to be big.” We were all these young kids… making art, acting, making films. The only person around that time I felt the same thing about was Madonna. “He was a beautiful person and an amazing artist,” says Alexis Adler, a former girlfriend. It was like he was born fully realised, a realised being.” “Jean-Michel had his faults, he was mischievous, he had certain things about him that could be called amoral, but setting that aside, he had something that I’m sure he had from the moment he was born. It's a very hopeless song because it reflects real life.“I knew when I met him that he was beyond the normal,” says musician and film-maker Michael Holman, who founded the noise band Gray with Basquiat. that is going on in the world, often run by huge yet nearly invisible organizations, corporations, and 'leaders'. While our lives are often shielded, we're in our own protective bubbles, or protective helmets like the one Thom wears, if we look a little harder we can see all the corruption, lies, manipulation, etc. He'd rather die peacefully right now than live in this cage. But there is seemingly no way out but death. politicians and businessmen, perhaps) is not the way to live. This boring, "perfect" life foisted upon us by some higher powers (not spiritual, but political, economic, etc. In the video, his helmet is slowly filling up with water, drowning him. On No Surprises, the narrator is realizing how this life is killing him slowly. People are being used by those in power "like a pig in a cage on antibiotics"-being pacified with things like new phones and cool gadgets and houses while being sucked dry. But in Fitter, Happier the narrator(?) realizes that it's incredibly robotic to live this life. We're told to strive for some sort of ideal life, which includes getting a good job, being kind to everyone, finding a partner, getting married, having a couple kids, living in a quiet neighborhood in a nice big house, etc. Same ideas expressed in Fitter, Happier are expressed in this song. You know there's nothing better that I'd like to do I can't keep from falling in love with you You got to just let your body go with the flowįalling in love, falling in love, falling in love You got to just let your body move to the music Think with your heart, not with your head (You're gonna bring your love to me, I'm gonna get you) (Not gonna let you slip away, I'm gonna be there) They get sweeter and sweeter the more that I know I fall deeper and deeper the further I go Sweeter and sweeter, and sweeter, and sweeter Deeper and deeper, and deeper, and deeper
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