This interviewer doesn't deserve to bask in the light of Basquiat. How painfully awkward. They feel tense, I'm getting second hand embarrasment watching this.
I like how he tried to have a gotcha moment about frustration in [JMBS] art and when he gives a surprisingly eloquent answer the interviewer doesn't know what to do
I don’t know if I’d say he was frustrated in that moment w/either of those things. I think the look of frustration probably had to do w/struggling to find words to talk about things he feels. As an artist speaking most likely is not his best skill. He internalizes frustration & expresses it outwardly in an art form of his choosing. I think he was struggling mostly in that moment w/trying to make somebody understand something that they simply cannot & may never understand what he understands about his frustration or art. One.
@@WBriden sure, and this is right beside those facts about racism and living in a society that constantly pulls you over for no reason just because your black or your "strange" haircut and likes art as much as doing this for life... so all of this asked as "frustration" coming from a white dude like that. You can imagine how he felt, everyone knows deep inside
I think it was his reaction was because he felt the interview was trying to take one thing that he said about frustration and take it down a dark road and so he didn’t want to take it there so that’s why he was frustrated about the interview were not getting him
He knew he was one of the greatest artists. He knew he was different. He knew how deep he was. He knew to feel sorry for certain reporters, not in an egotistical way, but rather from a humane perspective. He understood the mystery of life, and he accepted the one and only absolute certainty in life-death. He knew and understood his sensitive side which derived from how deep of a “person” he was. He expressed himself through paintings-not words. He used “words” as a tool to express how much he was so misunderstood. He saw words and man made languages as overrated (although he used words to speak) his simplicity is a subtle cry-out for acceptance-“accept who I am and how I am because if I can accept who I am and how I am, then I think people can too-but some choose not too.” He might have had these kinds of thoughts from time to time. Just saying what I observed from learning about this guy. And most importantly, I think he thought of himself as a matter of energy, rather than a “human being” (positive energy and artistic). But then again, not everyone has positive energy, and not everyone thinks of themselves as a matter of energy (good and/or bad??). This “guy,” or matter of energy I should say, is genius, and his art will live on forever through the ages. Legend.
Basquiat doesn't need a remake man... Basquiat is good enough. Julian Schnabel is a very fine director. If they remade it it be hollywood bullshit. Basquiat, the film, is pure art.
trey Stewart I sweat to god I was thinking the same thing as I just started looking him up. It’s almost as if kid cudi is him but a revamped musical version and suffers from the same afflictions such as drugs. But cudi is toned down however I heard Basquiat over dosed.
"Any primitives on your wall" Anyone who knows anything about the history of art would view that question as an insult. I couldn't believe what I was hearing!
I love this guy!!! He was amazing and such a deep thinker. So sad he passed away. So young and talented and beautiful with a soul of true love for all he encountered. He really wasn't a real person, but a legend, as he stated before he left us. Rip young King!!!
But at the same time he was super real. Being true to who he was and was not afraid to be "different". He was an art renegade. He just wanted to he understood to by the world and was not because the collective minds of the world are stuck in tunnel vision and blind. He was not blind.
Man, his art freaks me out. Elements of it look like a child created it yet its sophisticated. A true paradox. The real stuff. ART! It makes me feel great every time I look at it
He keeps focusing on frustration. I get it, black people can only be frustrated if they are doing art according the the yellow polo. I see curiosity, surprise, excitement, joy, hope, intellect and fun in his art.
Yeah, people who draw like a six year old scribbles are genius!!!!! I'm just glad that pretentious people like you exist, because , seriously, if you didn't, I would'nt have sold so much garbage art through my business for the past 30 plus years . Thanks to the pretentious idiots who can look at a shit smear on a canvas,andactually explain the "Angst" that went into such GREAT work....It's sad.
Hey dude, thx so much for uploading this and the lengthier interview. When I watched the Warhol diaries, out of 5 episodes it is THIS interview that I can’t forget about. The ‘ape’ and ‘primordials’ - how the fuck is this acceptable.
What an egotistical reporter. I think he envies him because he young and was more famous than him and that bothered him. His question's were under mining.
The kpop group PENTAGON just made a song titled BASQUIAT. The only kpop group who has the gut to talk about or write a song about freedom, etc. Pls support PENTAGON
It's sad that there wasn't a single interviewer who took him seriously. They all chalked his art up to his Haitian heritage. But basquiat art was anguish frustration with how society perceived him and how society perceived others. That why the faces are all grotesque almost disgusting. Because the society at that time was ugly and minimized the culture of black people. His bravado and love for the contemporary art of the black youth helped hiphop survive the early era. That's why I work to promote our music our voices or stories. Society sees our music as ugly grotesque. I will continue to help the youth tell their own stories
Yeah but it took interviews like this to unmask Basquiat's genius. He's cumbersome and condescending but at least he gave enough of a shit to ask questions when people would have lined up to piss on JMB's work
Madonna and he were a couple before either of them were famous. He is clearly high in this video. He looks like a lot of Gen Z rappers today. I wouldn’t know this video was 40 years old(or almost 40) if we didn’t know who Basquiat was.
Basquiat was well-known when they dated. His most valuable year is 1982 and that's when he began dating Madonna. His work was already being exhibited internationally.
I love this guy’s art. But what’s always been sad is hailed as the giant of African American art. But generations of black artist were making profound and socially aware art for over 200 years in America before him. Sadly America puts a young street artist who had a terrible drug problem over the generation of Harlem Renaissance painters who made works depicting the pre civil rights era in America. Still got love for This man’s work all day tho. Sadly you can tell he’s gone out of his mind during this interview too. Tragic.
As an artist, I WISH a reporter would ask me these questions. Everyone talking about “evil is interviewing” that’s ridiculous. Baz was fine. Probably liked getting some exposure and time to let ppl know a little more about himself, the artist.
This was filmed in early 1983, after Basquiat’s exhibit at the Fun Gallery in November 1982. The full interview is over 30 mins and includes footage in his Crosby Street studio. Some of the footage was used in Young Expressionists (ART/new york #19, 1982/3) and Graffiti/Post Graffiti (ART/new york #21, 1984).
HollyWeird Destroyed this very talented young BiMale. He shld have stuck to Street art, and left he alone.n They rapped him of his gift, now they Profit off of it, and he nor his family own or control NON OF IT....SMFH. it does to never stop with them continuing to take......take....take....until they have it all. I wonder how his family feels👀😯🤫
Idk every one on here is pointing against the white man. Obviously he’s not the best, but did you notice Basquiat is higher than the sun? Basquiat heart in that interview is running faster than hell, obviously is worried and confused, and he’s feeling bad and upset, and not because of the Interviewer, it’s because he’s high, but the dope isn’t feeling good. Being high is not a matter of feeling good. Your body is pretty smart, and sometimes, you don’t feel anything at all. Sometimes you feel bad instead. You feel your heart is racing and you’ve been precautious to not having a Panic attack. He’s anxious and, properly, he’s not thinking well as everyone do. I’m in alcohol and in amphetamines also, but not to much... (I guess). I really wish stay sober in the next months, because there are some 2 types of drug addicts: the people who wanna live and the people who wanna die... choose your side, and hope you choose the right side for you. Addictions are hard, but never could be an exit for you. (Sorry about my English, I’m Mexican and I’m just trying to figure out how to write my ideas properly) Saludos, a todos ✌🏼
![Jean Michel Basquiat modeling for Comme Des Garçons SS1987 [RARE SHOW]](/img/n.gif)
This interviewer doesn't deserve to bask in the light of Basquiat. How painfully awkward. They feel tense, I'm getting second hand embarrasment watching this.
It’s because he’s strung out on H. Sadly
It's not just a black white thing, the guy is a terrible interviewer in general, which makes it hopeless to arrive at a meaningful interview.
Yeah lol he did no background research you can tell
I like how he tried to have a gotcha moment about frustration in [JMBS] art and when he gives a surprisingly eloquent answer the interviewer doesn't know what to do
When people dont understand Basquiat. The look of frustration on his face when the interviewer asked him if his art expresses frustration. Oh jeez....
I don’t know if I’d say he was frustrated in that moment w/either of those things. I think the look of frustration probably had to do w/struggling to find words to talk about things he feels. As an artist speaking most likely is not his best skill. He internalizes frustration & expresses it outwardly in an art form of his choosing. I think he was struggling mostly in that moment w/trying to make somebody understand something that they simply cannot & may never understand what he understands about his frustration or art.
One.
Well, who would know him? He probably didn’t even know himself...
This interviewer just doesn't get it. Missed opportunity for a great interview.
@@WBriden sure, and this is right beside those facts about racism and living in a society that constantly pulls you over for no reason just because your black or your "strange" haircut and likes art as much as doing this for life... so all of this asked as "frustration" coming from a white dude like that. You can imagine how he felt, everyone knows deep inside
I think it was his reaction was because he felt the interview was trying to take one thing that he said about frustration and take it down a dark road and so he didn’t want to take it there so that’s why he was frustrated about the interview were not getting him
He knew he was one of the greatest artists. He knew he was different. He knew how deep he was. He knew to feel sorry for certain reporters, not in an egotistical way, but rather from a humane perspective. He understood the mystery of life, and he accepted the one and only absolute certainty in life-death. He knew and understood his sensitive side which derived from how deep of a “person” he was. He expressed himself through paintings-not words. He used “words” as a tool to express how much he was so misunderstood. He saw words and man made languages as overrated (although he used words to speak) his simplicity is a subtle cry-out for acceptance-“accept who I am and how I am because if I can accept who I am and how I am, then I think people can too-but some choose not too.” He might have had these kinds of thoughts from time to time. Just saying what I observed from learning about this guy. And most importantly, I think he thought of himself as a matter of energy, rather than a “human being” (positive energy and artistic). But then again, not everyone has positive energy, and not everyone thinks of themselves as a matter of energy (good and/or bad??). This “guy,” or matter of energy I should say, is genius, and his art will live on forever through the ages. Legend.
i love the way u worded this
his one painting was just sold for 110 million. I wish he was around to see all his success as one of the greatest artists
Elaine Greblowski had he been alive it would've never sold for 110m
@@dogsday1108 Maybe, Maybe not. We'll never know 🤷🏾♂️
Not even close to one of the greatest artists.
You never get the flowers when your alive
@@katatatatafish yes he is
I love his hair wow.
Jayz wanna be basquid because he wears his hair like him
I could see kid cudi playing him if they ever do a remake
#facts
would be fuckin lit
💯💯💯💯
Basquiat doesn't need a remake man... Basquiat is good enough. Julian Schnabel is a very fine director. If they remade it it be hollywood bullshit. Basquiat, the film, is pure art.
trey Stewart I sweat to god I was thinking the same thing as I just started looking him up. It’s almost as if kid cudi is him but a revamped musical version and suffers from the same afflictions such as drugs. But cudi is toned down however I heard Basquiat over dosed.
A sweet-faced, softly spoken visionary genius. I never knew him but I wish he was still here ❤️
I wish he was still alive
imagine...his...portafolio...
In mAui entering the age of 59..
In mAui entering the age of 59 enjoying life.
In MaUi
In mAui
I think we all do..
This interviewer is the worst
Evil interviews the innocent . He was thrown into a den of evil and unkindness, yet he still until the very end showed love for people .
shut up lmao
Lakieth stanfield can portray the role as Jean Michel Basquiat
1:30 that reaction to such a condescending question is so real
"Any primitives on your wall" Anyone who knows anything about the history of art would view that question as an insult. I couldn't believe what I was hearing!
Sh!t, Jeffrey Wright played this man right on point, with all his mannerisms.
Basquiat was a brilliant and talented young man! More people should learn more about his art and his life.
I love this guy!!! He was amazing and such a deep thinker. So sad he passed away. So young and talented and beautiful with a soul of true love for all he encountered. He really wasn't a real person, but a legend, as he stated before he left us. Rip young King!!!
But at the same time he was super real. Being true to who he was and was not afraid to be "different". He was an art renegade. He just wanted to he understood to by the world and was not because the collective minds of the world are stuck in tunnel vision and blind. He was not blind.
It's quite obvious that the "interviewer" had no idea who he was talking to with all of the moronic questions.
Man, his art freaks me out. Elements of it look like a child created it yet its sophisticated. A true paradox. The real stuff. ART! It makes me feel great every time I look at it
The interviewer is a car sales man type
He inspired me to write my poetry book called The Ghost of the Stairway
good for you
Stevie Johnson You might not read this but would you mind giving us a link if there is one, I'd love to check it out
oh please
gshoot us a litle sample bro...
Stevie Johnson ya post da link yo ur book
good always conquers evil.
hell yeah
Well, evil conquered JMB and he got hella addicted to heroin for years before eventually overdosing lmao
Evil didn't win. He's immortalized.
100 years from now, he will be studied.
While every warmongering lobbyist in D.C. will be long forgotten.
He keeps focusing on frustration.
I get it, black people can only be frustrated if they are doing art according the the yellow polo.
I see curiosity, surprise, excitement, joy, hope, intellect and fun in his art.
Beautiful comment
The illest freeform dreads
A true LEGEND and GENIUS!
Yeah, people who draw like a six year old scribbles are genius!!!!! I'm just glad that pretentious people like you exist, because , seriously, if you didn't, I would'nt have sold so much garbage art through my business for the past 30 plus years . Thanks to the pretentious idiots who can look at a shit smear on a canvas,andactually explain the "Angst" that went into such GREAT work....It's sad.
@@Valkonnen We totally believe you.
@@jordannietos I don't want anyone to believe me...they have eyes...BTW, something smells funny...Did you shit your pants again?
I’m sure him and Roberto Clemente could relate about the racism in AmeriKKKa
RIP💐Basquiat🇵🇷🗽🇭🇹👨🏽🎨RIP💐Clemente 🇵🇷⚾️💐
Hey dude, thx so much for uploading this and the lengthier interview. When I watched the Warhol diaries, out of 5 episodes it is THIS interview that I can’t forget about. The ‘ape’ and ‘primordials’ - how the fuck is this acceptable.
What an egotistical reporter. I think he envies him because he young and was more famous than him and that bothered him. His question's were under mining.
And a black nonconformist
I love his accent
He was just a kid!! Way to big a role for such an engenue.
My greatest inspiration.
No matter what he did to himself.
Love That man til my flesh is no more
He was too good to get mixed up with a bad crowd.
R.i.p. jean
The kpop group PENTAGON just made a song titled BASQUIAT. The only kpop group who has the gut to talk about or write a song about freedom, etc. Pls support PENTAGON
Black excellence at its best. Rip King!
And Boricua🇵🇷excellence as well. Thanks too his mother for taking him to art galleries at a young age
💐🇵🇷🗽🇭🇹💎👨🏽🎨❤️✊🏾
@@BoricuaNyc Never heard of it...
I love him and this is amazing. Thank you!
Jeffrey Wright, down pat!! love it!!
1:27 got me dead. Who else is here for school
Literally asked the same question 3-4 times just worded differently 🤦♂️
This was a different type of real. RIP Basquiat RIP he truly was a huge loss to the culture.
He was the weeknd before the weeknd
Sooo far ahead of his time. Sheesh
One painting was sold for 110 million to a millionaire
They actor who makes jeans paper in they basquiat movie is awsome
It's sad that there wasn't a single interviewer who took him seriously. They all chalked his art up to his Haitian heritage. But basquiat art was anguish frustration with how society perceived him and how society perceived others. That why the faces are all grotesque almost disgusting. Because the society at that time was ugly and minimized the culture of black people. His bravado and love for the contemporary art of the black youth helped hiphop survive the early era. That's why I work to promote our music our voices or stories. Society sees our music as ugly grotesque. I will continue to help the youth tell their own stories
Men the reporter is annoying - it’s almost like he is looking for him to say what’s he is assuming
A beautiful mind
Brilliant
Idk why he reminds me of Ian Connor. Both Capricorn’s too
vvildteen nigga go to bed
except one is a rapist
He does
Kinda looks like him
Istg this comment just star strucked me lol. The movements, the light kid voice, the posture, etc👌🏽
He’s beautiful
You mean people? Wow.
What a horrible interviewer. This legend should have been interviewed by a more seasoned person that was smarter and would ask better questions.
Yeah but it took interviews like this to unmask Basquiat's genius. He's cumbersome and condescending but at least he gave enough of a shit to ask questions when people would have lined up to piss on JMB's work
Kid Cudi is Basquiat I'm convinced
Madonna and he were a couple before either of them were famous. He is clearly high in this video. He looks like a lot of Gen Z rappers today. I wouldn’t know this video was 40 years old(or almost 40) if we didn’t know who Basquiat was.
Basquiat was well-known when they dated. His most valuable year is 1982 and that's when he began dating Madonna. His work was already being exhibited internationally.
Anyone know where the full version is?
Dude why the interviewer talk like this, it was so weird to watch.
No puede quedarse quieto o tranquilo, la angustia por la necesidad de drogas lo consume, era muy evidente que moriria por una sobre dosis.
happy birthday basquiat 12/22
Kid cudi could play him in a movie
I love this guy’s art. But what’s always been sad is hailed as the giant of African American art. But generations of black artist were making profound and socially aware art for over 200 years in America before him. Sadly America puts a young street artist who had a terrible drug problem over the generation of Harlem Renaissance painters who made works depicting the pre civil rights era in America. Still got love for This man’s work all day tho. Sadly you can tell he’s gone out of his mind during this interview too. Tragic.
This is jayz
Whats with weird pics? Frame pauses
i need the interviewer to stop he is HORRIBLE
As an artist, I WISH a reporter would ask me these questions. Everyone talking about “evil is interviewing” that’s ridiculous. Baz was fine. Probably liked getting some exposure and time to let ppl know a little more about himself, the artist.
Haitian primitives?? That was not really a mistake by the interviewer. That was what was on his mind & it came out.
Me when I talk to my h8ters
And why the gratuitous stills during the FREEGIN INTERVIEW!!!! Thumbs down caus’a that!
Is this the guy that interviewed the Rolling Stones when they first came to America?
They ask the most stupid question
what's that song at the very beginning?
'Haitian primitives' ... who is this interviewer 🤦♀️
Ayyy Puerto Rican nice
OMG that sounded like Marc Bolan’s “The Wizard” at the beginning!!
Was the song in the beginning Johnny thunders
He is also half Puerto Rican but the interviewer only asked him about his Haitian roots!
Haiti is famous for their art paintings and he is an painter. And he is black
@@1lafchris "I am not a black artist. I am an artist". - Basquiat
Is that interviewer still alive? I am going to google him.
RIP💐👨🏽🎨🇵🇷🗽🇭🇹💎❤️💐
You can tell he was high in this video. Drugs is what killed him.
Im trying to see the shirt
Why the need for stupid ass freeze frames of him throughout the interview.
Does anyone know, what year was the interview?
1983
freck im sad he's not around
Do any of you viewers have any Haitian primitives on your wall?
Does anyone know what year this took place?
probably 1986 or something possibly earlier
Early 1983. vimeo.com/143818583?ref=fb-share&fbclid=IwAR1-v9ddBTZPRK9kvHshVdRX9MO-VD9w_E6qAPjF-cRPW7NfjeG-S0S4cAg
1983.
The Annina Nosei period.
Worst interviewer EVER! I’m embarrassed for him geez
does anyone know the name of this interview/the publication?
This was filmed in early 1983, after Basquiat’s exhibit at the Fun Gallery in November 1982. The full interview is over 30 mins and includes footage in his Crosby Street studio. Some of the footage was used in Young Expressionists (ART/new york #19, 1982/3) and Graffiti/Post Graffiti (ART/new york #21, 1984).
Sam Rindge thank you ever so much! :)
I always thought he was French. Because of his name
Why would think that idiot
Haitian full names usually sound awesome.
🇵🇷🗽🇭🇹👨🏽🎨💐💎❤️
SAMO
That's me. I could easily have gone down the same parh
Mayaswell of been interviewed by a beansprout.
You crazy😂😂
These tortured artists. Lol
how primitive was the interviewer!!
The interviewer was terrible!!!
83?
The interviewer had to be stoned 😩😩😩
when did you people first hear of basquiat lol
Today
HollyWeird Destroyed this very talented young BiMale.
He shld have stuck to Street art, and left he alone.n
They rapped him of his gift, now they Profit off of it, and he nor his family own or control NON OF IT....SMFH. it does to never stop with them continuing to take......take....take....until they have it all. I wonder how his family feels👀😯🤫
This interviewer was trash.
Idk every one on here is pointing against the white man. Obviously he’s not the best, but did you notice Basquiat is higher than the sun? Basquiat heart in that interview is running faster than hell, obviously is worried and confused, and he’s feeling bad and upset, and not because of the Interviewer, it’s because he’s high, but the dope isn’t feeling good. Being high is not a matter of feeling good. Your body is pretty smart, and sometimes, you don’t feel anything at all. Sometimes you feel bad instead. You feel your heart is racing and you’ve been precautious to not having a Panic attack. He’s anxious and, properly, he’s not thinking well as everyone do. I’m in alcohol and in amphetamines also, but not to much... (I guess). I really wish stay sober in the next months, because there are some 2 types of drug addicts: the people who wanna live and the people who wanna die... choose your side, and hope you choose the right side for you. Addictions are hard, but never could be an exit for you. (Sorry about my English, I’m Mexican and I’m just trying to figure out how to write my ideas properly) Saludos, a todos ✌🏼
wtf is this interviewer on
Little racist undertones
Nice
what
the interviewer is very boring......wanted 2 bask in the lime light with this interviewer.....