Dog Leg Study
Dog Leg Study
Unsigned Print
Jean-Michel Basquiat
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56 x 76cm, Edition of 50, Screenprint
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Meaning & Analysis
Although reminiscent in title to Leg Of A Dog, the imagery of Dog Leg Study is markedly more volatile and discordant. Text referring to landmark moments of twentieth-century history, such as ‘US Troops end occupation 1936 Haiti’ brush up against robotoid depictions of body parts. The text reading ‘Negroes as portrayed in the thirties’ recall images by the artist which deal with Black representation in Hollywood cinema, such as Hollywood Africans In Front Of The Chinese Theatre With Footprints Of Movie Stars.
In this work, another riot of clashing symbols, drawings and text, the artist's strident and clashing mark-making emphasises startling paradoxes in society's treatment of animals. Images of dogs and canine body parts are displayed alongside sausages and other meat items, contrasting the notion of dogs as human-like with society's use of animals as food. Flashes of red on body parts, including a dismembered foot in the centre of the piece, present a gory point of contrast to the clinical monochromatism of the Anatomy series.
Jean-Michel Basquiat's unique visual style has dominated the Urban Art scene, securing his status as one of the most successful African-American street artists of the 20th Century. Addressing themes of race, identity and culture within his expressive works, his distinctive painterly style and use of child-like iconography changed the course of art history forever. Artworks such as Undiscovered Genius place controversial subjects at the forefront of his narrative. Despite his tragically premature death at the age of 27, Basquiat's impact on the art scene is exemplified through the increase of his market value in the years since.
