Drawing Collaboration: Andy Warhol, Jean Michel Basquiat, Francisco Clemente
In 1984 Andy Warhol, Jean Michel Basquiat and Francisco Clemente collaborated on a series of drawings together. The rules were simple: each artist was to begin three separate paintings and one drawing each. They’d leave enough “mental and physical space” (Bischofberger’s words) for the other artists to contribute to the painting. They’d then send their unfinished work on to the next artist kind of like the stories you’d write with your friends where someone would begin with a paragraph – sometimes stopping mid sentence – and the next person would begin to tell their own story, apropos of nothing but their own imagination.
This process went on for about a year, eventually evolving into a body of collaborative work by Warhol and Basquiat that was exhibited in 1985.
Images above:
artists from left to right: Warhol, Basquiat, Clemente
2 artworks done in their collaborative project