Mockingbird Masterpieces

Jean Michel Basquiat is our last artist for Black Art History Month. He was an expressionist abstract artist who didn't care what people thought about his artwork. He was also a musician who loved jazz and the trumpet. These are 4th and 5th grades masterpieces. I'm pleased about how they turned out. Please share. Acrylic paint with crayon on cardboard.

As a colorist, George Rodrigue emphasized the differences in hues between his paintings.

“You can’t take a Blue Dog from one painting and switch it with one from another,” he explained. “The color changes according to whatever other color is alongside it.”

During the early 2000s, just prior to his loose and spontaneous explosion of Hurricanes, Rodrigue focused on tight, controlled studies of color and design, often on custom-stretched round canvases, such as the paintings Roulette, Wheel of Fortune, and ‘Round the Mulberry Bush.

“My paintings are like puzzles,” he often said. “Once the puzzle is complete, then the painting is finished.”

‘Round the Mulberry Bush
2002
Acrylic on canvas
36 inch diameter
Newly framed and available and on display at Rodrigue Studios New Orleans. Learn more: https://georgerodrigue.com/art/paintings/