Episode #12: Jean-Michel Basquiat

23/08/2021 36 min Episodio 12

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 - 00.03 - Good Morning Christopher
 - 00.26 - James can leave anytime
 - 01:20 - Cleo and Phoenix Cat bake themselves
 - 01:56 - This is not a cat show, it's about art!
 - 02:07 - James insists on discussing "Gene-Michael Basket"
 - 02:56 - Catherine just likes the hair
 - 03:06 - James finds zero resonance in the consistent scribble
 - 04:15 - Christopher relives discovering Basquiat in Venice Beach
 - 04:27 - Basquiat Doc Marten's don't cost millions
 - 05:00 - Christopher discusses Brooklyn graffiti and Phoenix murals
 - 06:05 - SAMO: Same Old Bullshit
 - 07:55 - Tagging walls, developing his style
 - 09:00 - Youthful angst and "Irony of a Negro Policeman"
 - 09:00 - James feels bullied
 - 10:30 - Dadaism explains it all
 - 11:00 - "Self Portrait" 1984, Acrylic and oil stick on paper
 - 12:00 - "Riding With Death" 1988, Acrylic, crayon, canvas
 - 12:37 - Heroine-house field trip
 - 13:25 - Dio de los Muertes and Catherine's skeleton study
 - 14:30 - James remains unconvinced and unimpressed
 - 17:06 - Film "Basquiat", 1996
 - 17:46 - Enveloped into the Factory
 - 18:20 - Warhol, the "King of Marketing"
 - 19:00 - It's celebrity vs the work, benefactors vs "smack schmuck"
 - 19:40 - James remains unconnected to Basquiat's work
 - 20:07 - Sotherby's marketing: "How Jean-Michel Basquiat Turned Art History on Its Head"
 - 20:25 - Christopher admits to being a "heavy doodler"
 - 21:27 - James agrees with Basquiat on painting/sketching continuum
 - 22:06 - James likes the "heads", finally says something nice!
 - 22:50 - Lots of balls in his work
 - 23:45 - Catherine remains "sucked in" after 20 yrs
 - 24:29 - Galleries of New York City vs. James approval
 - 25:30 - Christopher's philosophy on "drug-influenced art"
 - 27:20 - James deconstructs art politics and how artists are "chosen"
 - 29:48 - The calculated wrath of SAMO "Jean-Michel Basquiat and the Birth of SAMO"
 - 31:35 - James scores a "fake it til you make it" point
 - 32:40 - Christopher brings it home with Al Diaz
 - 36:40 - More to discuss on Basquiat, Catherine can't stop