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work, from painting to other forms of music. Jazz is an American music form
that was developed from African-American work songs. The white man began
to imitate them in the 1920's and the music form caught on and became very
popular. Two artists that were influenced by jazz were Jean-Michel Basquiat
and Stuart Davis. The influence is quite evident in many of their works, such
as Horn Players, by Basquiat, and Swing Landscape, by Davis. Stuart Davis
was born in Philadelphia in 1894. He grew up in an artistic environment, his
father was art director of a Philadelphia newspaper, who had employed Luks,
Glackens, and other members of the Eight. He studied with Robert Henri from
1910 to 1913, made covers and drawings for the social realist periodical The
Masses, which was associated with the Ash-can School, and exhibited
watercolors in the Armory Show, which made an overwhelming impact on him.
After a visit to Paris in 1928 he introduced a new note into U.S. cubism, basing
himself on its synthetic rather than its analytical pha
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interest in jazz, which Davis considered to be the counterpart to abstract art. There are not a lot of
distinguishing symbols of jazz in the painting, except for maybe a pair of
sunglasses and a metronome in the bottom left corner. The use of the warm colors shows the
unpredictability of jazz. He made witty and original use of it and created a distinctive
American style, for however abstract his works became he always claimed that
every image he used had its source in observed reality. At the age of
seven he and a friend of his wrote and illustrated a children's book. The fact that the
music is incredibly vibrant and unpredictable is quite noticeable. His work displays a new type
of figurative depiction, using different symbols, sources, and content. Basquiat's painting has some color in it, but is not
vibrant. The colors give a feeling of jazz with
the use of blues and cool colors. A love for jazz, by
the artist, can be seen in both paintings. In his teenage years Basquiat ran away
from home often. He enjoyed doing graffiti work
using the name SAMO ( same old *censored* ). He uses a
lot of words and symbols.
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