I've recently became entranced with an artist, who I think is especially gifted with expression, his name is Jean-Michel Basquiat. He is somewhat of a legend in the art world and in the book I'm reading there is a beautiful quote that talks about his career:
"It has been written of Basquiat that he "embodied the myth of a modern Icarus who rose too quickly and burnt himself in the heat of the sun." Such a beautiful and tragic description of an artist. The book lists some of Basquiat's earlier infuences which I find amusing.
Excerpt from "Jean-Michel Basquiat-a Biography":
"Early themes were:
1) The seaview from voyage to the bottom of the sea
2) Alfred E. Neuman
3) Alfred Hitchcock (his face over+over)
4) Nixon
5) cars (mostly dragsters)
6) wars
7) Weapons
8) Made drawings of oopick+Fritz+wair+Yaboo with Marc Prozzo