Word: johnnypump
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...minimalism of the prior decade. All those no-nonsense Donald Judd boxes--it was only a matter of time before a new generation came along to scribble on blank slates. That was how it felt when Basquiat's bright, hectic canvases started appearing. In Boy and Dog in a Johnnypump, an '82 picture in the Brooklyn show, he applied broad washes of pigment in a way that suggests a cross between Willem de Kooning's surfs of color and any kid's finger paintings. The boy is then built up out of a host of ragged gestures. Basquiat...
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