Jean-Michel Basquiat was the precocious graffiti-artist-turned-downtown-art-sensation in the 1980s, a protege of Andy Warhol’s who sadly perished in 1988 of a heroin overdose. His “primitivist” artworks inevitably led skeptics to question whether there was really anything there at all, but that reaction is certainly overdone. As we can see in the Basquiat’s Simpsonized crown logo, this mashup was just waiting to happen.
Vacancy has produced a T-shirt with the Bartsquiat image, it costs a mere $35. If that seems like a lot of money to you, you should be aware that this sexy lady is wearing it, so it’s probably worth it.
If nothing else, the mashup indicates a heretofore little-noticed affinity between the work of Matt Groening and Keith Haring.
And hey, where else are you going to see a bunch of yellow Homer Simpson penises?