Art has played a major role in contemporary and modern thought, the last 30 years is pivotal in how we perceive art and its development through time.
The modern day artists have manipulated the history of Art and transformed the skill into a way of getting through social and global problems by inheriting subtle context, emotional imagery and assertions which generally gives the piece of work a form of beauty. The techniques commonly used are widely conducted through the use of Sculpting, Graffiti, Trademark Slogans, Lyrics, distinctive styles of text etc… The two Artists I have chosen that conduct the use of text and emotional imagery in their work are “Jean Basquiat” and “Barbara Kruger”.

Basquiat was an American artist, musician and producer in which his Art focus was to produce socially attractive work which included wealth versus poverty, integration versus segregation, and inner versus outer experience so his art work always adopted a type of competition between two players that where in no way similar Basquiat main movement was Non-expressionism he quoted “Fire will attract more attention than any other cry for help.” Meaning now he has the peoples attention he will use it to socially better the rights for the people around. …show more content…
The image is based on a creamy white piece of board with a distorted face of himself centered
In the middle, with ladders and bridges facing outwards of the face towards a series of text presumably the ladders lead to the thoughts and opinions Basqiuat has of certain mainstream thinking and the ways of socially influenced