Single Blackwing Pencil - Volume 57
Single Blackwing Pencil - Volume 57
Single Blackwing Pencil - Volume 57
Single Blackwing Pencil - Volume 57

Single Blackwing Pencil - Volume 57

£3.25
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Blackwings are a pencil with cult status. Used by writers like John Steinbeck, Looney Tunes creator Chuck Jones, and Disney animator Shamus Culhane, they enjoy a certain level of fame amongst artists. These 'Volumes' Editions each celebrate individuals who have helped shape the cultural landscape of the world.

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The latest limited edition pencil from Blackwing.

Jean-Michel Basquiat is one of the best known artists of his generation and is widely considered one of the most important artists of the 20th century. His works are edgy and raw, and through a bold sense of color and composition, he maintains a fine balance between seemingly contradictory forces such as control and spontaneity, menace and wit, urban imagery and primitivism.

The conjunction of various media is an integral element of Basquiat’s art. His paintings are typically covered with text and codes of all kinds: words, letters, numerals, pictograms, logos, map symbols, diagrams and more, and featured multi-panel paintings and individual canvases with exposed stretcher bars, the surface dense with writing, collage and imagery.

The Blackwing 57 is a tribute to Jean-Michel Basquiat and his boundary-pushing art. The number 57 is a reference to 57 Great Jones Street in New York City, where Basquiat created some of his best-known works. Blackwing 57 contains Blackwing's soft graphite lead.

made from:

Graphite and Wood

dimensions:

Each Pencil = 8.5 x 2.75 x .75 in


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