WARHOL AND NEO-EXPRESSIONISM

Critical to Warhol’s reinvention of painting was the revival of the medium by the Neo-Expressionist painters. Warhol was both enamored with the new painting and challenged by it. He relished the youthful vitality of artists such as Jean-Michel Basquiat, Francesco Clemente, Keith Haring, and Julian Schnabel. Seeing the energy in their work and witnessing their popularity, Warhol began to work with new enthusiasm and eventually produced an extended series with Basquiat. His intimate working relationship with Basquiat during the years of 1983-84 certainly expanded his repertoire of painting techniques and dramatically increased his production-a stimulus that carried the artist through the end of his career.

Dallas Art news
Oct 9 2009