Jean Michel Basquiat the Radiant Child 2010

Jean Michel Basquiat the Radiant Child 2010

2010 American movie

Jean-Michel Basquiat: The Radiant Kid
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Theatrical release poster

Directed by Tamra Davis
Produced by
  • Tamra Davis
  • David Koh
  • Lilly Vivid
  • Stanley Buchthal
  • Alexis Manya Spraic
Starring Jean-Michel Basquiat
Cinematography
Edited by Alexis Manya Spraic
Music past

Production
companies

Distributed by Arthouse Films

Release dates

  • January 25, 2010 (2010-01-25) (Sundance)
  • July 21, 2010 (2010-07-21) (United States)

Running fourth dimension

ninety minutes
State United States
Linguistic communication English

Jean-Michel Basquiat: The Radiant Kid is a 2010 documentary moving-picture show directed by Tamra Davis. It crosscuts excerpts from Davis' on-camera interview with the artist Jean-Michel Basquiat and anecdotes from his friends and associates. The moving-picture show was shown at the Sundance Film Festival in 2010. [1]

Background [ edit ]

Tamra Davis was working in a Los Angeles art gallery in 1986 when she filmed an interview with her friend, Jean-Michel Basquiat. [2] Subsequently Basquiat'southward death from a heroin overdose in 1988, Davis stored the footage away. In 2008, Davis was encouraged by gallerists at the Museum of Contemporary Art to do something with the footage. [three] She began interviewing friends and associates of Basquiat'south and pieced together a documentary. [two] The film is titled after an article nigh Basquiat written by art critic Rene Ricard for Artforum in 1981. [4]

Synopsis [ edit ]

In the beginning of his 10-yr career, Jean-Michel Basquiat was known for his graffiti art under the alias Samo in Manhattan'due south Lower Due east Side in the late 1970s. He sold his get-go painting to Debbie Harry for $200, dated Madonna, and became a close friend and collaborator of Andy Warhol's. [i] Basquiat was launched into international stardom for his bebop-influenced neoexpressionist work. Withal, soon his cult status began to overshadow his art. [5] As a successful black artist, Basquiat was constantly confronted by racism and misconceptions. The Radiant Child draws from insider interviews and archival footage of Basquiat'due south telling his story in his ain words. [i]

People interviewed [ edit ]

Reviews [ edit ]

The film received positive reviews, however, critics noted that information technology doesn't fully explore why Basquiat's work was so "innovative in the New York art scene of the 1980s." [half-dozen] Camber Magazine wrote that "you see the paintings and hear people praise them, without the infinite to consider them in between, " adding: "The film's a decent introduction to a man who walked the world of SoHo, CBGB, and Andy Warhol'south final days, just the more you know going into the movie, the more you sense it leaving out." [seven]

The Hollywood Reporter wrote: "Naturally, the doc is well illustrated with examples of Basquiat's work, some of which are little-seen. Just even those who dispute his identify in fine art history should come away with a feeling for the homo whose brief career is a textbook example of a flame burning as well bright to terminal." [8]

The Artforum wrote: "The movie gives a sense of how driven he was, how it seemed as if he aimed, by sheer volume, to assure himself a place in the pantheon of twentieth-century painters, when in fact he achieved that position by virtue of a necessarily smaller number of masterpieces, produced in the early and tardily stages of his heartbreakingly brusque career." [nine]

References [ edit ]

  1. ^ a b c "Sundance 'x | Tamra Davis Revisits the Life of Jean-Michel Basquiat". IndieWire. January 21, 2010. Retrieved 2021-08-28 . {{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  2. ^ a b "Q&A: Manager Tamra Davis Talks Basquiat and Her New Documentary". The FADER . Retrieved 2021-08-28 .
  3. ^ Meter, William Van (2010-07-19). "Asked & Answered | Tamra Davis". T Magazine . Retrieved 2021-08-28 .
  4. ^ Kane, James (October 14, 2010). "Review: Jean-Michel Basquiat: The Radiant Kid". St. Louis Mag . Retrieved 2021-08-30 . {{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  5. ^ Pinnington, Mike (January 25, 2018). "Shut-Up on Tamra Davis'due south "Jean-Michel Basquiat: The Radiant Child"". MUBI . Retrieved 2021-08-thirty . {{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  6. ^ Kendricks, Neil (February 7, 2010). "Fine art world makes a run at Sundance Film Festival". The San Diego Union-Tribune.
  7. ^ Cutler, Aaron (July 19, 2010). "Review: Jean-Michel Basquiat: The Radiant Child". Slant Magazine . Retrieved 2021-08-30 . {{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  8. ^ AP (2010-x-14). "Jean-Michel Basquiat: The Radiant Kid — Picture Review". The Hollywood Reporter . Retrieved 2021-08-thirty . {{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-condition (link)
  9. ^ Taubin, Amy (July 20, 2010). "Amy Taubin on Jean-Michel Basquiat: The Radiant Kid". Artforum . Retrieved 2021-08-xxx . {{cite spider web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)

External links [ edit ]

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