BASQUIAT's work ethic

xami sha Basia had endless inspiration, he was the embodiment of artistic flow, and while most artists will never come close to his once-in-a-generation talent, there are a few things you can learn from his

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ing methods that will help you. to take advantage of your own creativity. genius, for example, at the beginning of his career, bosia went out and bought two books, two books that would inform all of his

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until his death, the first book was this, the symbol of Henry Draus, source book, this rare book would end up providing material source for almost all the 1500 drawings and 600 paintings he left behind his art were full of symbols, ladders, crowns, crosses, copyrights and they all come from this rare book, many of them are gathered on a single page, page 90, a page that almost seems like a dictionary of all his artistic language and if you look at the symbol here, that is Mandy's symbol, he used this symbol sadly to symbolize and prophesy his own death.

Source material, one of the secrets to staying in flow. Basia used source material as if it were J dilla. sample records, but source material alone won't automatically give you creativity, you have to learn to use it like an artist, ultimately it comes down to taste, it comes down to trying to expose yourself to the best things humans have done and then try to incorporate those things into what you're doing, I mean, Picasso had a saying that said: good artists copy, great artists steal steal like an artist means to steal without judging, let your taste make the decisions, not your brain, where do the words come from? um, real life books, television, yeah, and you just flip through them and you start to include me when I'm working, I listen to them, you know, and I just throw them away, oh yeah, well, I mean things like the Punic Wars.

I remember that was in one of your oh. That was from a guide to Roman history, the history of Rome, five pages, you know, so you snatched some words out of it. I snatched them up, you know, they caught my attention, you know, and I grabbed them the moment you stopped judging. Should I use this? What would people say? You open yourself to flow. Go. What is this Pluto? Based on a drawing that was the first drawing of the Moon by Galileo. Yes, this looks like an eye. Yes, yes, that's the evil eye. the volio oh okay, now you're stealing like an artist, but how do you become more than the sum of your influences?

How do you make it all make sense? you choose what serves your message the second book that gave Basia her incomparable divine impulse Is this a flash of the spirit? A book about African art. This book was key in helping him focus on his message. You see? The reason most artists lose flow when they work is because when they get stuck they have no ideology to guide them. get them out of their difficult times and because they don't know what they are trying to communicate to the world, any obstacle could stop them for days overthinking staring at a blank canvas artist's paralysis that's what happens when you don't have an overarching message in your work , Basia, I think there are a lot of people who were neglected in art, I don't know if it's because of who made the paintings or what, but I don't know, it seems like I know black people. was never portrayed realistically or even portrayed, I mean, not even portrayed enough in modern art and because it had a message, the art came out of it much more easily, it's not just that it had source material, but that I had a place to channel it. there is anger in you of course there is of course that is talked about tell me what anger is that you are angry about his work it became a comment on the underrepresentation of black art in the established art world this one looks like a skull which is a GCO a what Gasco a GCO what is that GCO GCO C when you have a message, art comes out of you easily, but a message, tons of original material and your new audacity to steal like an artist is still not enough. you will never have that bosia Unlimited inspiration and flow if you don't master the speed the day Basia met Andy Warhol, he ran home and painted a self-portrait of both of them from a Polaroid that his idol had just taken and then ran.

I went back to the restaurant to give it to him the paint was still fresh Warhol couldn't believe it all he kept repeating was oh I'm jealous I'm jealous he's faster than me oh God you're so fast and these are so cool and that was the beginning of everything between Andy and Michelle when one of the most prolific artists of all time is jealous of your speed, you know you're doing something right, speed, work fast as hell, you should work so fast you don't have time to think the brain is your enemy In art, as they say in the music industry, keep the tape rolling if you really want to become the legendary artist that you have the potential to be, if you really want that infinite inspiration that you need.

You have to understand that most of the flow you will have while making art will come from all the things you were doing when you weren't making art. In between your creative sessions, while everyone else is busy consuming content regurgitated on social media, you should go. offline and you should dig deeper, most people need to speed up when they sit down to work, they need hours before they can finally get into the rhythm, that's because they haven't been feeding their minds during their free time when they never went to an art school. I failed the art courses I took in school.

I just looked. I looked at a lot of that stuff and that's what I think I learned about art from looking at it. Go to museums. It's a Roman belt. The drawing that the Metropolitan made went to the Metropolitan Museum and I made the drawing of the Buckle and I came back with it and put it there oh well, that's a slow process. I am a slow person in the process. It may seem slow to an outsider, but that slow process is what makes you outrageously fast when you go back to the studio, study, memorize and internalize, make your Mantra and those ideas you consume marinate within you and eventually suddenly become part of your artistic DNA.

The strangest things will emerge from you at the most unexpected times. It's all because you created this source of inspiration. You became a student of life, ready at any moment to express your genius. For more tips on growing your creativity, listen to the art, not the content. podcast on Spotify and Apple Music