Interview with Andy Warhol and Jean Michel Basquiat

[notsorryamsane]

revolutionary



[drobbi]

the worst art either of them made

[Garrikpz]

I was that kind of art when I was 5 and so do my kids lol!

[svecter]

It aint what you know its Jew you know, kids.

Same as ikt ever was in art as in business.

[FREEDEJATAYLOR]

OMG KID CUDI LOOKS SO MUCH LIKE HIM HERE***

[lavajavalava]

Awesome!

[Vansit84]

Trash

[AdrianaSally]

I love him

[TheArtofFollowing]

I love how Jean Michel looks so awkward at 2:01... like a little boy who doesn't know what to do with his hands.

[TheDallyLama]

Basquiat > Warhol

[chetubetcha05]

Maybe i'm gonna get major backlash but I think each of these guys is a bit overrated. Especially Warhol. They deserve their due but idk if they deserve such acclaim

[Jvergakis]

@chetubetcha05 sense u didnt get major backlash yet let me be the first to say fuck off....jk

[sethdoesmeth]

@mshoyebi i wish upon ur rectum, a penis, not a large one, a small asian one. but in fact a penis in ur rectum

[JackANDJude]

Basquiat asked the guy standing behind them something like "Do you have to rub us down?" His discomfort with a third person (perhaps an art dealer or curator?) STANDING over the two artists is palpable. Look how he stands up and changes position, so that he doesn't look inferior. I don't blame him one bit.

[fatblackpeople1]

I didn't know Tracy Morgan was so into art...

[misternylon]

WAR-Hole has a certain ring to it.

[e6e2e3e1]

Warhol is my hero.

[IStehSHIT]

@e6e2e3e1 jesus is my hero!

[misternylon]

Warhol was to painting what Madonna is to pop music, washed up and without an idea of his own so he engraciated himself with the next big thing, maybe he was her dad as the resemblance in game plans is remarkable!

[nigel65deck]

@misternylon These are simple over the shoulder magazine style comments that Warhol would have loved. Madonna spilled a drink on you in Danceteria or something and you ain't never got over that.

[misternylon]

@nigel65deck that's right, whatever you say if it makes you feel better. So I was 2 years old and on a different continent but hey it happened (in your head) but how did you figure out that I was indeed the editor of a low rate rag called Over the shoulder magazine? it's like you're psychic powers know no bounds.

Later on when I was three years old I also pioneered the faggy publications "Off the Cuff" and "Eat my shorts" but they were not nearly as successful. :)

[PadrePio797]

@misternylon so so 100% right. He was also the snitchiest gossib informer types to spread sexy gossib. He purposefully went to Studio 54 to see who had sex with who. He preverted in a nasty way.  A real Father Sexy Sam, a glossed over dish-washer lady who belonged with the gappers and gossib club of ol hag women of the time who spied from their tenament windows and their stoops!!! But he did have a fake had talent for copying but anyone with 1/2 brain can copy.

[ViciousBeautyNYC]

Warhol was the Christopher Columbus of art.....& that's not a complement !!!

[music4love4music]

@ViciousBeautyNYC i don't get it, how is that not a compliment? and Why is that not a compliment?

[JosephCa64]

Basquiat would have been far better off staying away from Warhol. Warhol was done by then, his work had become staggeringly derivative of itself. But, using other people was always something Warhol did, so that's what he did. And, the critics, savaged them as well they should have, the work was lame and soulless. By all accounts Basquiat was crushed by this and Warhol couldn't give a shit. He got his name out there again, for the last time really.

[Bobbyjoesnose]

i love the look on andys face when basquit put his arm over his sholder

[tayboy0022]

i meant heroin overdose

[tayboy0022]

he was really 27 he died of a meth overdose in his art studio in new york

[HelloNewYorkCity]

@tayboy0022 he overused heroin after warhol's death, and overdosed and died. he really liked warhol and was heart broken. during the late 80's tons of warhol related people died.

[betterinformed]

@HelloNewYorkCity from what i read about jean michel basquiat it was COCAINE not heroin he was addicted to.

[plaidpretzel]

Warhol seems to be either confused or bored....

[MissyMya96]

someone like basquiat will never be born .

[SloanKetering]

not to disrespect the great artist but am i the only one that think andy looks like the puppet from puppet master the one with the knife and hook hands sorry first thing i noticed when i saw him in this video

[marthasoria66]

@SloanKetering hahahahahahahahahahaahahahahah­ahahahahahahahahahahahahahahah­ahahahahahahahahahahahahahahah­ahahaha !

[earinsound]

@Ozzrya91 Apparently a racist one with Nazi leanings...after viewing your other YouTube comments. Wow, such hate.

[earinsound]

@Ozzrya91 -- I used to not like Rothko, but...something happened and I really saw the value (on a visionary level) of his work. Sloppy...no. Simple...yes. Meditative...definitely. We'll agree to disagree! :) I too am an artist working in the abstract field w/ roots in surrealism.

[earinsound]

@Ozzrya91 Which period of Rothko are you referring to? They aren't sloppy at all. Look again--they are very well executed and have definite shape (i.e. not random smears). If you have a total aversion to "non-representational" abstract art then there's no way anyone will convince you that Rothko's work is wonderful. His work is transcendental...that was his aim--as well as to produce a sense of awe in the viewer. His work has zero connection to Pop Art or Damien Hirst.

[earinsound]

@Ozzrya91

rothko does not belong in the same category as the others (who i agree are garbage makers, not artists). rothko is a very soulful painter.

[CandyAcidReign]

wish the volume was higher... but good vid.

[RemoveWater]

The music in the background i Talking Heads.

[RemoveWater]

The music in the background i Talking Heads

[adamlinks]

BASQUIAT exhibition at Modern Art museum in paris IS major event. For those who didn't see this, you can get down on your knees and PRAY!!! haha!

[jpgr69]

These comments are hilarious. And sad.

[graffbx]

that black guy looks like kid cudi LOL

[jdriscoll2000]

@Ozzrya91 shut the fuck up. andy warhol isn't a significant figure in modern art? give me a fucking break. you don't have to enjoy his work, but denying his importance or relevancy is blatant and pathetic philistinism.

[jacksonmpa]

@Ozzrya91 sorry I appear to be a comment behind... Giger: if those are your reasons I'd be far more likely to cite William Burroughs or Stanisław Lem. I can't say that painters have coped with such possibilities anywhere near as well as they have, particularly Burroughs.

[jacksonmpa]

@Ozzrya91 too much of a big question. Warhol is, in my mind, one of the most important, although Warhol, I would add, may not have been as successful as he was without the legacy of Dali.

[jacksonmpa]

@Ozzrya91 in what way is Giger's work relevant? In fact, in what way was Giger's work ever relevant? I'm not being funny, I just don't really see it. This seems to be very much skating over the surface of image making, not using art to engage with the world, whatever "the world" may be.

[jacksonmpa]

@Ozzrya91 come on... the bread in his bread basket painting looks like it was made of wax! Seriously I'd hardly give that as an example.

[jacksonmpa]

@Ozzrya91 "Un Chien Andalou" was very good, he really wasn't a very good painter though in the traditional sense. Warhol's project was an engagement with both materials/technologies and engagement with the society that is pretty much unparalleled in terms of contemporary art. One can only really compare Duchamp and Cézanne in terms of the last 150 odd years. I'm also slightly surprised of your nonchalant dropping of Giger in there. That was a bit left-field!

[jacksonmpa]

@Ozzrya91 really? Picasso I agree with, although I prefer Braque, but Dali was awful! A second-rate painter and the popular (but comparatively vapid) face of surrealism.

Also I think your comment "he didnt even do his work...they are all copied prints of photographs with random colors....", whilst correct, completely misses the point. Much like saying a pencil is just a bit of carbon with wood wrapped round it.

[mikris50]

It's Gold Bullion hung on walls, somebody (not me) said that. These fuckers are so up there own tuneled arseholes there aint a train in sight, N,S E or West!

[Gibbons3000]

where was the interview?

[kriscokidd]

@Ozzrya91 we all start as artists and then opinions like yours brought forth by cultural upbringings cloud our vision of truth.

[harlembaddboi]

Jean Micheak Basquiat is a genious

[jaggerlags]

@harlembaddboi intuitive, yes. melodramatic, yes. genius? i feel the influence isn't there across art for that title.

[MajesticKG]

Basquiat was one of the greatest painters to ever live.

[pipersue19]

That was like in the 80's right? hard 2 hear but thanx

[abcdifa]

i can't hear a damn thing

[Baxxter101]

I love Warhol's intentionally expressionless face. I suspect he may have been the most introverted person to ever inhabit a personality in the public sphere.

[MaBu888]

@Baxxter101

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[Ramoa111]

l cant hear shit dude!!

[Baxxter101]

@Ramoa111 hah! me either, cranked the volume to max and its still nearly a whisper.

[elffrog]

Oh, really good.

[MrFrankBullitt]

Both of these guys suck.

Their "art" is simplistic as best.

[go2class]

panditha666 fuck you die or your mother at that should have aborted you you're worthless let real good art live on and racists as youself die slow and not be remembered

[grainofsandfan]

Basquiat's work is stunning to see.

Warhol knew it when he saw it.

[sarniaking]

Basquiat's paintings still look wonderful today! Obviously, you're some bummed out failure of an artist to write angry and, yes, racist comments.

[Danooshyk]

i really dont wanna be mean, but andy looks like piotr rubik.... and in addition, both are actually very talented

[Panditha666]

@Danooshyk talented?! how is smearing shit on canvas and also having others repeat your image and not even hand paint your things talent?

[Danooshyk]

obviously u have never heard piotr rubiks songs

[Sk8man1050]

it has nothing to do with "talent" if they have no talent then so be it they still did more influential things than you ever will by not having "talent" as you would say so it doesnt matter

[Panditha666]

@Sk8man1050 inflential? as in being famous? ha fucking nigger

[simonweston]

inflential?

[teamcrumb]

You know nothing/so little it hurts. Basquiate was a master painter and Warhole could paint, silkscreen, photograph,film, shit, smile etc etc

[teamcrumb]

Another piece of racist turd waiting for sweet release, hurry, hurry, i hear heaven needs a shit-wipe, why do turds such as your self always think whether someone can paint in a life like manner is all there is to art. You are a douch-bag-wipe, you are going to win a medal for your cause, congratulations! I see the potty Furher and klu klux Dan are waiting for you on the hill, they want to hug their prodigal son! Oh the happiness you must feel as you run to daddy! careful now, i hear he's rad!

[Panditha666]

@teamcrumb turds like me sorry kiddo im not you. why? becuase that takes skill and actual WORK unlike this shit.

also how am i racist for calling someone a dumbass?

[rog809]

well you could said all the shit but hi would be in history forever and you would be always a nobody , a little shit that nobady would know about it ,basquiat is eternal you nothing...

[Panditha666]

@rog809 eternal with niggers like you who dont know art.

[rog809]

what do you i know about art ? i study 3 year of art history plus im and artist myself five year in parson school Academy in plastic art, and i can keep going , so thats make very cualify to know about art , ahh i forgotyou are a Loser.

[shadyvill325]

Jean Michael Basquiat Could Be KId Cudi's Father!!!!!!!!!

[slenderma]

I was thinking the same thing lol!

[TheButcher1982]

@shadyvill325 Agreed man, kinda that new age thinking type deal

[Ravinnnx]

lmao thats what i was thinking the whole time i watched this~

[PieceofMindmusic]

2:15 - 2:32

i thought it was a collaboration, who said Andy was the 'boss', and who said jean's work was just 'scribbles'.

[butterfinger16932]

I wish i could of met them both.

[Dooku64]

Andy Worhol has been dead for years sorry man!

[hueoner718]

Me too. More jean.

[anthonynewsome]

wow, why would anyone surf this video and then leave such hateful vile racist, homophobic comments, is their anyway to alert Utuber about the comment directly below mine, when did someone who wears white sheets learn to type

[NewMadrid01]

RIP Basquiat and Warhol, two geniuses gone too soon

[OfficialAshleyDawson]

how was Andy Warhol gone too soon he was old as fuck?

[NewMadrid01]

uh andy warhol was only 58, that is young...

[OfficialAshleyDawson]

oh im sorry wow i didnt know that he looked much older but i guess thats because of his skin disease?

[NewMadrid01]

yeah have you seen the last photos of him alive, he looks like he is maybe like in his 80s, he really deteriorated in has last years

[StevieDisopolis]

@NewMadrid01 i know, and basquiat was only 28 when he passed :(

[GPLeague]

The actor in the Basquiat film does a great job. Hadn't seen real footage of Basquiat until now. David Bowie is not bad as Warhol either!

[redibeaver]

Warhol is impossible to "see" thru his work. Only by reading one of his few books can you get an understanding of his very sophisticated and inventive view of the world. Who cares when he was born? Get a grip and read his writings!

[Dingalingring]

Jean Michel looks quite 'together' here, despite being in the throes of cocaine and heroin addiction and depression during this time.

[Dingalingring]

I think Andy was an incredibly sensitive, insecure, socially phobic person who 'wore' a mask of indifference to cocoon himself from being hurt. He was deeply religious all his life (he was a Byzantine Catholic), and he also helped out at homeless shelters in NYC almost every Christmas. The Factory was his own ideal social forum over which he had complete control, and it probably suited him just fine how it was populated by spaced-out, far-out eccentrics. They must have made him feel normal!

[Dingalingring]

Btw, does anyone know the exact, accurate date of his birth? There are several birth dates floating around - one states August 6th 1928, another says August 6th 1927, and another says something like late October 1930. ???

[2700SKIDOO]

Warhol was know to keep his age a closely guarded secret, but 1928 was the date that has been confirmed by his relatives, plus by his school records.

[Dingalingring]

I think Andy was an incredibly sensitive, insecure, socially phobic person who 'wore' a mask of indifference to cocoon himself from being hurt. He was deeply religious all his life (he was a Byzantine Catholic), and he also helped out at homeless shelters in NYC almost every Christmas. The Factory was his own ideal social forum over which he had complete control, and it probably suited him just fine how it was populated by spaced-out, far-out eccentrics. They must have made him feel normal!

[alfons00p]

is warhol already death or still alive in this vid???

someone please help me out i'd really like to know muhahahaha

[Dingalingring]

@ alfons00p - Lol! You know what? That's a very valid point you make, because many people who knew Warhol personally say that he 'died' (inwardly at least) after Valerie Solanis attempted to shoot him in 1968 (I think..). He was never the same after that, and I can't say I blame him so much. He was already very fragile before the assassination..

Boy George, who had dinner with Andy in the 80s, described him as "cardboard and creepy", a "limp voyeur" observing but completely disengaged..

[MuscularBeaverx]

Calling Warhol "cardboard and creepy" was a very true statement. I, like many people, find his work intriguing; yet, I always struggled to comprehend what was actually going through Warhol's head at the time. In fact, he had an IQ of only 84.

[Dingalingring]

I know what you mean. Well, Andy was once quoted as saying - in response to people wondering what he was all about - "Just look at the surface of my paintings and films". ;-p

I never set much store by IQ test results, tbh, because the ability to focus, concentrate, and think logically is linked to a person's well-being, which fluctuates much of the time. I know people who flunked IQ tests, but who are excellent at manual, practical tasks, and vice versa. I think most IQ tests are too narrow.

[corgholio]

plus i think the 84 IQ is an urban legend. . .

[Herr2Cents]

jeez i wish mine iq were 84

[Rexicano]

Warhol died in a car crash with Paul McCartney in the 60s. lol

[shaki8]

it is unbelievable that one death lead to the other one...Two great artists.! thank you both!

[cwegers1]

neither had long to live

[chrisdevins]

You've renewed my faith in Art...thank you.

[retropanther]

LOVE!

[Camilllllllllla]

2 Legends..

[benloom]

awesome