Discussion+Questions

__Some of these artists could be examined in pairs:__
 * Basquiat and Keith Ha**ring: Both of the graffiti movement
 * Sherman and Guerilla Gir**ls: Representative of Women's Issues in the 80s
 * Wegman and Longo**: The commercial side of the Art World
 * Robert Mapplethorpe and Haring**: Significant Losses from HIV/AIDS

Please identify two very important things to share about the artists, based on the film clips, Web sites and facts. It could be a clip you feel is significant or particularly representative, an image, or a sentence or two you read.

__Things to Consider:__ 1. After examining the Web links, and reading a bit about each artist, how do you think he or she personifies the 1980s? 2. What themes from our class have displayed themselves in the artwork? 3. What commonalities can you seen between all of the artists? 4. If art is supposed to be a harbinger of the "next thing" then what does their artwork reflect of the coming 1990s? 5. If art is a reflection of the time period, then how is the 1980s art scene a microcosm of the larger culture? Or is it not?