Focus on this artwork and analyze the Technique.
Jean-Michel Basquiat was created using a complex tracing and silkscreening process, using layers of colors of silkscreen ink on top of a background of acrylic polymer paint, applied to a 40-by-40-inch canvas. It is also one of Warhol's "piss paintings," meaning the colors were oxidized by evaporating urine.Warhol began experiment with urine in the early 1960s, and in 1978 he "developed the piss-painting technique as a way of introducing a random element—an ironic paraphrase of the hero of Abstract Expressionism, Jackson Pollock, with his drip technique."Warhol coated the canvas with copper paint and either he or an assistant urinated directly onto the canvas. Warhol wrote in his diary that he preferred the "contributions" of his assistant Ronnie Cutrone "because he takes a lot of vitamin B so the canvas turns a really pretty color when it’s his piss."
Jean-Michel Basquiat Jackson Pollock canvas Ronnie Cutrone silkscreen Abstract Expressionism silkscreening urine