4 天之前 · Untitled (Boxer) is a neo-Expressionist painting by the painter and street artist Jean-Michel Basquiat. Hailing from New York City, Basquiat is as famous for the paintings that he exhibited in US galleries as he is for the street art that he sprayed all over Manhattan as part of the renowned graffiti duo named SAMO.

2024年10月5日 · Basquiat’s unique style and powerful depiction of a boxer in this particular artwork have contributed to its status as one of his most famous paintings. Let’s explore five reasons why “Untitled (Boxer)” has captured the attention …

The artwork titled “Boxer” by Jean-Michel Basquiat, created in 1982, employs acrylic and crayon as its primary mediums. It is a part of the Neo-Expressionism and Street Art movements, encapsulating a figurative genre with dimensions of 193 by 239 centimeters.

In the figure of the black boxer, Basquiat found an alluring icon of self-made power, a hero for the modern era, an athletic champion who manages to triumph in a world where the odds were firmly stacked against him in the form of deep-seated racial prejudices.

Untitled (Boxer) is a monumentally sized artwork by Basquiat depicting a boxer, a champion of epic proportions, and a figurative self-portrait of Basquiat as a rebellious warrior.

2025年2月10日 · Two central figures, both boxers, take your focus initially, before the whole series of texts draws your eyes around the canvas. The style used across Boxer Rebellion is entirely typical of Basquiat, with his figures created from relatively simple lines, with only the occasional solid form.

Basquiat first achieved fame as part of SAMO, an informal graffiti duo who wrote enigmatic epigrams in the cultural hotbed of the Lower East Side of Manhattan during the late 1970s where the hip hop, punk, and street art movements had coalesced.

2024年6月3日 · Jean-Michel Basquiat was a black Brooklynite whose rise to fame was as unexpected as his premature demise. He painted “Boxer” in 1982 (Fig. 1). This painting embodies Basquiat’s influences...

Untitled (Boxer), 1982. Basquiat filled his paintings with a roster of black heroes and icons from history who he empathized with as a successful black artist that still had trouble flagging a taxi in New York because of racial prejudice.

2023年4月14日 · The photographer who captured Andy Warhol and Jean-Michel Basquiat as boxing champions for a series of publicity pictures says that Robert Mapplethorpe was initially lined up to take the...