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Larger Image	Larger image may be viewed by UofL faculty, staff, and students only (log-in required using ULink username/password) at: http://echo.louisville.edu/login?url=http://vrc-web.louisville.edu/Jpegs/700/700-33.jpg
Title	Horn Players.
Creator	Basquiat, Jean-Michel (American painter and sculptor, 1960-1988)
Date	1983
Cultural Context	American North American African-American
Theme	Paintings (visual works) Acrylic paintings (visual works) Mixed media Graffiti Concrete poetry Poetry Text (layout feature) Inscriptions Words Letters (signs) Capital letters Handwriting Music Jazz Figurative art Figures (representations) Front views Portraits Group portraits Men (male humans) African American Musicians Players (of games, instruments) Composers Trumpeters Costume (mode of fashion) Suits (main garments) Coats (garments) Neckties Neckwear Eyeglasses Spectacles Faces (animal or human components) Musical instruments Wind instruments Brass instruments Trumpets (aerophones) Saxophones Boxes (containers)
Subject	Paintings Acrylic paintings Mixed media Graffiti Poetry Inscriptions Music Jazz Portraits Group portraits Men Musicians Jazz musicians Composers Celebrities People associated with entertainment & sports Clothing & dress Suits (Clothing) Coats Neckties Neckwear Eyeglasses Mustaches Faces Wind instruments Brass instruments Musical instruments Trumpets Saxophones Boxes
Description	"Although savvy enough to take [Robert] Rauschenberg and [Jasper] Johns as models, as well as to avoid the subways, Basquiat teamed up with a fellow dropout, Al Diaz, and headed for SoHo, where the art world soon knew the pair through their concrete poetry writ large on outdoor walls and tagged SAMO©. After winning a place in the 'Times Square Show,' SAMO© broke up, which left Basquiat free to sign his own name to a set of graffiti-scrawled, unprimed canvases and enter them in P.S.1's 'New York/New Wave' exhibition, held in early 1981. With the gallery support that followed, he began producing what many consider his strongest work, large canvases arrayed in rudely calligraphed names, titles, phrases, and poetry that periodically metamorphose into mock-primitive imagery - skyscrapers, grinning, Africanized masks and skulls, oddly dangling robotic figures. With its rhythmic, unifying admixture of improvised slashes of black or brilliant color, abstract signs and symbols - grids, crowns, arrows, rockets - the mature painting created by twenty-two-year-old Basquiat easily invites comparison with the art of [Jean] Dubuffet and [Cy] Twombly but, like the work of these senior artists, remains so distinctive as to lie beyond comparison." (Excerpt, pp.399-[400])
People Pictured	Gillespie, Dizzy, 1917-1993 Parker, Charlie, 1920-1955
Material	Acrylic and mixed media on canvas Acrylic paint Paint Mixed media Canvas
Measurements	8' x 6' 5"
Inscription	Left "panel", top to bottom: CHAN / EAR / ORNITHOLOGY [crossed through] / PREE / SOAP [with box around it] / FEET [somewhat crossed through]; Center "panel", top to bottom: [Two variations of DIZZY GILLESPIE] / [Variations of CHARLIE PARKER, some crossed through, partially covered in white brushstrokes] / ORNITHOLOGY [with box around it] / LARNYX [in parentheses and crossed through]; Right "panel", top to bottom: ORNITHOLOGY [underlined] / ORNITHOLOGY [with box around it] / ON ORNITHOLOGY [both crossed through and in same box] / OOH SHOO DE OBEE / TEETH / TEETH [crossed through with arrow pointing to right] / ALCHEMY / ALCHEMY / ALCHEMY / ALCHEMY / ALCHEMY [with circle around it]
Work Type	Paintings Acrylic paintings Mixed media
Repository	Eli and Edythe L. Broad Collection (Santa Monica/Los Angeles, California)
Source	Hunter, Sam, John Jacobus, and Daniel Wheeler. Modern Art: Painting, Sculpture, Architecture. 3rd rev ed. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 2000. (p.399, fig.770).
Rights	Hunter, Modern Art: Copyright © 2000 The Vendome Press, New York. Further, it should be noted that many of the art works reproduced in this volume are subject to claims of copyright in the United States and throughout the world, particularly for those artists represented by ADAGP and SPADEM, both located in Paris and exclusively represented in the United States by Artists Rights Society, New York. For other artists, mainly American, the copyright agent is VAGA, New York.
Digital Publisher	University of Louisville Department of Fine Arts/Allen R. Hite Art Institute Visual Resources Center
Format	image/jpeg
Digital File Name	VRC 700-33.jpg
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