Beautiful, interesting, incredible cinema.
JEAN-MICHEL BASQUIAT: THE RADIANT CHILD
Synopsis
Tamra Davis pays homage to her friend in this documentary but also delves into him as an iconoclast. His dense, bebop-influenced neoexpressionist work emerged while minimalist, conceptual art was the fad; as a successful black artist, he was constantly confronted by racism and misconceptions.
Synopsis
Tamra Davis pays homage to her friend in this documentary but also delves into him as an iconoclast. His dense, bebop-influenced neoexpressionist work emerged while minimalist, conceptual art was the fad; as a successful black artist, he was constantly confronted by racism and misconceptions.
Our take
Tamra Davis’s essential documentary on a visionary, Jean-Michel Basquiat, looks beyond his enigmatic aura. A vibrant, tantalizing study of an artist who, in the director’s own words, “became famous for his art, and then became famous for being famous, and then became famous for being infamous.”