Andy Warhol and Jean-Michel Basquiat, filmed in 1986

This is from the final episode of State of the Art, a series of documentaries about the visual arts in the 1980s. To buy the DVD, please go to www.illuminationsmedia.co.uk

Filmed in Europe, the United States and Australia in 1985-6, the six programmes feature many key artists including -- in addition to Basquiat and Warhol -- Cindy Sherman, Antony Gormley, Hans Haacke, Eric Fischl and Joseph Beuys. The films also explore the intellectual context of the time and the ideas of post-modernism.

The series was originally seen on Channel 4 in Britain, and then shown in more than 20 countries.

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  Film & Animation

[salloo77yy]

Andy Warhol is a Men In Black agent.

[danielingham2036]

Why do people assume that art is about how detailed a painting is or how nice it looks? Art is about expression, when can gogh painted people told him his paintings sucked because it wasn't some big detailed historical piece. There is no problem with realism in paintings if that is the artists preferred medium but people shouldn't assume all great art is a big historical epic or something.

[Gerard Grant]

R.I.P. Andy Warhol and Jean Michel Basquiat!!

[AlexPelzerFan]

KID CUDI= JEAN MICHEL BASQUIAT EXACTLY.......they happen to both be a mix of black and hispanic. Cudi is Afro-American/Mexican and Basquiat is Haitian/Puerto Rican. AWESOMENESS!!!!

[Bolin Cartest]

Is the narrator pronouncing basquiats name right?

[topheris FENRIR]

a year before i was born

[Mecca Dishmon]

Jean-Michel is freaking awesome he has became one of my biggest inspirations

[dizyootum]

i love  Basquiats hair

[Gibson Weasel]

this art is GREAT! and I hate when people bash stuff and say they can do it!! tossers!! ever thought its about the state of mind of an artist! the idea! do some of you think about the amount images around us everyday! the influences we get? why we pick and choose what we like and dislike!! there is so much information and story's going on in Basquiats work! just to have a quick glance and say its crap without thinking is DUMB!

[the555deal1]

Because art looks nice

[tubekew]

Wait... Is that Julio from the Flash?