The Original Impulse Of Basquiat’s Painting

At second half of the19th century, the part of painting arts were not fettered by tradition gradually and began to find and probe into the essence of self. The time arrived second half of the20th century, painting arts were explored about one century by human, forms and skills of arts had gained certain liberation and independence. Especilly in west, the painting arts became highly active in this period, and a great number of outstanding artist whose painting had modern features had sprung up. Jean-Michel Basquiat was one of them.Pain could not only inspire the most essential emotion of human, but also spurred artist’s inspiration. The most of classical paintings were finished in that masters were undergoing pain of soul and spirit trauma. Art was a visualmedia what could express our real emotions and thinking. Each artist had designed their own artistic style, because each of them had their own experiences and psycho-characteristics. The same sense, every appreciator had different view about that emotion had delivered through painting pictures. Basquiat’s Life Experiences had crucial effect on his drawing too.Overall, every work always brought thinking to people, the work level was almost proportional to the thinking depth for audience, excellent work could resonates with appreciations. Basquiat’s work brought more thinking about life, humanity, society, and art, his works were studied by more and more scholar. In Basquiat’s life, his living was free without restraint, bohemianism and negative, but the temperament showed from his heart was contrary to these words. His psychological conditions changed all the time among sadness, anxiety, fear, pain, irritability, frustration, happiness, etc. His works were finished on those mixed feelings, his feelings had been shown most incisively on those works too. For example, in some works showed this emotion like a mother love dearly her child, those work were done when Basquiat saw the mysterious world with a childlike innocence. Same graffiti drawing which signed "SAMO" expressed the unknown fear and confrontation of youngster to the society, his emotion was restless, even despair right now. Same from the surface to reflect the emotion was anxious, but toke a closer look showed unparalleled cool attitude after anxiety. And some were finished when he faced death. At that time, he thought from the life essence of angle, and showed calm after saw through the death. It can be said that every symbol, image, and logo in his works looked like record about every fragment and instantaneous of his life. They were revealing the essence of life, answering the question on life. They had magic that made people in tears. Basquiat’s had two extreme emotions, which made the distance between sadness and joy were widened to maximum. His painting had two aspects of the contradiction too. He was honest on facing the original impulse of self, did not attempt to hide and cover his emotions, but indiscriminately expressed its.Kant once said that beautify is not involved in the concept and generally made people feel happy. Aesthetic judgment not only is singular judgement but also has universal communicability. In the aesthetic process, the art is consistent and connected in expressing human emotions. Basquiat’s attitude towards the world and aesthetic way were expressed to us through his work. Basquiat always concentrated on the self-emotion when he was creating, so his works were very human primitive. Contrasted his works with human original understanding of the graphics, we found they were surprisingly similar. His works had brought a strong shock to our heart, we could touch his innermost heart from the paintings. Art is pure and innocent, we should proceeded to deal with it honestly, to put aside all the utilitarian an desires, to get rid of all other thoughts through the own original requirement. Art should be vested in the original belonged to human nature, and painting as an important part of art should follow this principle.