Why Artist Jean-Michel Basquiat is Relevant To Human Rights Today

In 1982 at the age of just 22 years old, Jean-Michel Basquiat would produce this Untitled skull painting. A powerful and dazzling image that mixes text, colour, symbolism and mark-making in a raw and uncensored explosion. In a single painting, he would use his instinctive power of visual language to say everything he wanted to…