What Is Drawing? An In Depth Introduction To Drawing Paintings
An instance of Basquiat’s early canvas-based work, Untitled includes a patchwork cranium that seems virtually a pictorial equivalent of the monster from Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein – a constructed and sutured sum of incongruent components. Suspended earlier than a background that implies aspects of the New York City subway system, the cranium is without delay a up to date graffitist’s riff on a long Western custom of self-portraiture, and the “signature piece” of a streetwise bohemian. The expression on the skull-like face is downcast, with the tough stitches suggesting an sad mixture of constituent parts. The colors used, which combine and…