Sunday, July 03, 2011

Boy and Dog in a Johnypump - Jean-Michel Basquiat



“Boy and Dog in a Johnnypump is a monumental work dating from 1982, when Basquiat reached the zenith of his talent. As is usual in Basquiat, the composition is simple, but the whole painting is a neo-expressionist ‘tour-de-force’ in which the usually pleasant scene of a boy playing with his dog is painted with the rabid energy of a primitive work of Art.”

Text by G. Fernández, http://www.theartwolf.com