Jean Michel Basquiats Untitled ( Skull), Great Art Explained

In 1982 at the age of just 22 years old, JeanMichel Basquiat would produce this painting. A powerful and dazzling image that mixes text, colour, symbolism and markmaking in a raw and uncensored explosion. In a single painting, he would use his instinctive power of visual language to say everything he wanted to say. About America about art and about being black in both worlds. What a brilliant series this is Stephen Fry on Twitter 12 December 2020 Thoroughly researched and cleverly presented, with stunning visuals, Great Art Explained makes you realise that familiarity with a work of art sometimes makes us indifferent to its power Forbes Magazine, 9 July 2020