The Same Image: Basquiat’s Premonition and the Life of Ermias Asghedom

A Comparative Essay There are moments in art history when an image refuses to stay in its own time. Jean-Michel Basquiat’s All Colored Cast (Part III), painted in 1982 in a studio apartment on Market Street in Venice, California, is one of those images. Rendered in acrylic and crayon on a luminous yellow canvas, the…