And you are playing Dizzy’s music from a great concert thirty years before, and this Child, make no mistake he was a spoliled and decadent one, couldnt hold a candle to it. Bird and Coltrane were the Picassos of our time and country, Miles Davis the Matisse, yet are ignored in the contempt art worlds lily white and self absorbed soul.

Basquiat is but a token, certainly does not reflect the world of African Americans taken into human wholeness, that would be Romare Bearden and Charles Alston and others. He simply was used to make white kids feel better about themselvs, a marketing ploy. OK stuff, but thats about it, his avoiding the academic art world his only saving grace.

He aint no Anselm Kiefer, thats for sure. Kids stuff hanging with decadent folks at Warhols marketing machine, which had no art. Basquiat at least did have the beginnings of true creative art to him, which was so rare it got the attention of the effette, but was truly very undeveloped. And pretty much hit his ceiling. overrated, but things are so bad now, I guess anything will do.

art collegia delenda est
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