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Basquiat at the Tate Modern in the 80s room

From:     art London
Category: Art
Date:     21 December 2008
Time:     11:27 AM

Review:

A trio of rooms with 80s brits, germans, italians, and americans. The customers leave it nice and 
quiet ignoring the now subtle looking figurative transavanguardia return of painting neo-figurative. 
Schnabels plate painting looks quiet contemplative and not too shabby. Lupertz grubby and good. 
The Italians a little bit sentimental. David Salle still not good. Outstanding and luminously time 
stoppingly fantastic is an Indian painting by Basquiat, fluid and not overworked, looks easy to pass 
and is exhibited in a dark corner, but Basquiat even prematurely lost, is perhaps the last really great 
painter we have had, his facility to weave patches and lines into figures is astonishing, and since then 
there has been noone who has painted with his convincingness. 


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