I always was liked Basquiat painting b/c I naturally draw similar that. His style is pretty dingy. I always hated a neat/clean sheet of paper after drawing b/c it felt empty to me. I find ppl that overanalyze portraits funny & often pretentious. I'm willing to bet a lot of Basquiat's work meant absolutely nothing to him & he was just painting whatever came to mind
I've drawn **** & when ppl see they'll give me all these hypothetical of what it meant, and the whole time I'm thinking "you're turning me into the genius that I'm not." But then again, maybe I am subconsciously. I can see how ppl see could find those pictures wildly symbolic & specific. I wonder if he liked his own artwork. I know I usually don't like my own even when I think it's "good". That picture I posted a couple months ago... hate it. I look at it see all of the mistakes I made.