Words Are All We Have: Paintings by Jean-Michel Basquiat Sweatshirt painting just the panel’s background

painting just the panel’s background to generate bold negative silhouettes

Mary Jacobus

Wood abstracts his subjects with an intensification of color and a distortion of depicted space

among other things

it’s disorienting and doubly hard to remember where each image has been placed

Words Are All We Have: Paintings by Jean-Michel Basquiat Sweatshirt painting just the panel’s backgroundThis book was published on the occasion of the exhibition Words Are All We Have: Paintings by Jean Michel Basquiat at Nahmad Contemporary, New York. Curated by Dieter Buchhart, the exhibition focused on the artists creative use of language. Sampled, collaged, poetic, and political, words always played a critical role in Basquiats practice, from his writing as SAMO through the later paintings and drawings. The first half of the catalogue offers diverse