Who was hit by a car at age seven.
Whose mother was committed to a mental institution when he was thirteen.
The artist who ran away from home two years later.
Who started his art career in graffiti.
Who had his first solo exhibition in Italy.
The artist who was selling paintings for $25,000 by the time he was twenty.
The artist called Jean-Michel Basquiat
1984 was a good year for Basquiat. Not only was he getting tons of recognition in the art world, he was also riding high on the success of side projects such as "Beat Bop" - an early hip-hop single he produced that would eventually be labeled the "holy grail" of rap records. However, 1984 was also the year that Basquiat was given his first solo exhibition at the Mary Boone Gallery in New York, where he showed a number of previously unseen works. Among them, was "Wine of Babylon."
Featuring cartoonish, almost child-like depictions of several prominent "Alice in Wonderland" characters, including a black man representing the Mad Hatter, the popular belief is that, through this piece, Basquiat was commenting on the dominance of whites in America's popular culture.
“Wine of Babylon” remains one of Jean-Michel Basquiat’s more well-known pieces. So when Kidrobot started putting Basquiat pieces on Dunnys in 2018, this painting was an obvious choice to be used in our Masterpiece Dunny series in which we take the seminal works of groundbreaking artists and transfer them onto a collectible art figure that’s perfect (and affordable) for any art lover.
Kidrobot x Jean-Michel Basquiat 8-Inch Masterpiece Dunny - Wine of Babylon is dropping in thirty minutes from now. Be sure and snag your own piece of art history.
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