This peice by Jean-Michelle Basquiat was inspired by multiple things,such as artists like Picasso or Pollock, jazz music, and even the herion abuse. Black, being the lack of colour, was used for the strange and quite teriffying figure. Shapes and lines were brilliantely used to create a disturbing portrait. The texture used for the background creates a shady sort of rough, ridged, bumpy background, giving a very upsetting kind of feeling to this particular peice.
After cutting off part of his left ear, wrapping it in newspaper and sending it to a prostitue named Rachelm, Van Gogh was never seen by Gauguin, who happened to be the man Vincent had threatened, again. Vincent Van Gogh's extremely well known portrait of himself shows through very monotonious colours the lack of emotion, he seems almost depressed or in a deep state of sadness. Using texture his hat looks fuzzy, while his coat looks wool and thicker. His eyes were painted looking away from the viewer, again showing that sense of distance and lonliness, lack of intimacy.
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