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Basquiat loved jazz and hip-hop. In this painting, he repeats, combines, and overlaps different lines, colors, images, and words, creating a fast tempo, an urban rhythm, that conveys a sense of improvisation. He may have been inspired by one of his musical heroes, the jazz saxophonist Charlie Parker.

Syncopation is an unexpected accent in music that interrupts a rhythm. Hip-hop and jazz musicians both use syncopation in their work. Listen to the syncopation in this clip from Charlie Parker's Bongo Bop. How has Basquiat used a visual kind of syncopation here? " popup_text2="&popup_text2=Listen to Charlie Parker's Bongo Bop (1947). Courtesy Savoy Records." popup_text3="&popup_text3=ADDTITLE2:
Basquiat drew inspiration from many different sources, including his large collection of books. His way of showing a man both inside and out may have been inspired by several books he owned, including Gray's Anatomy, a book about Leonardo da Vinci, and a famous art-history textbook." popup_text4="&popup_text4=ADDTITLE3:
Look at how Basquiat lets us see the pieces of wood that hold the canvas. The ends of the wood supports stick out at the top and bottom of the painting. Usually painters hide these supports by wrapping the canvas around them." popup_text5="&popup_text5=ADDTITLE4:
Basquiat's paintings are made from a combination of materials. In Notary, he used acrylic, a water-based paint that sometimes drips down the canvas. He also glued silk-screened prints onto the canvas. And he used an oil paintstick (which is like a giant crayon made out of oil paint) to write directly on the canvas and over the prints." image_num="&image_num=1" image_title1="&image_title1=Notary " image_caption1="&image_caption1=1983. Acrylic, oil paintstick and paper collage on canvas mounted on wood supports. Schorr Family Collection; on long-term loan to the Princeton University Art Museum " image_url1="&image_url1=notary.jpg" image_width1="&image_width1=720" image_height1="&image_height1=313" what_think="&what_think=What do you think?" popup_info="&popup_info=Pop-up text" popup_on="&popup_on=ON" popup_off="&popup_off=OFF" more_paintings="&more_paintings=More Paintings in
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