“SAMO© as an end to mindwash religion, nowhere politics and bogus philosophy.”

E829846

graffiti slogan street art text

“SAMO© as an end to mindwash religion, nowhere politics and bogus philosophy.” is a cryptic graffiti slogan associated with Jean-Michel Basquiat’s SAMO tag, critiquing organized religion, politics, and philosophy through subversive street art.

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Observed surface forms (1)

Surface form	Occurrences
SAMO© as an end to mindwash religion, nowhere politics and bogus philosophy.	0

Statements (45)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	graffiti slogan ⓘ street art text ⓘ
aimsAt	bogus philosophy ⓘ mindwash religion ⓘ nowhere politics ⓘ
artisticFunction	public intervention ⓘ
associatedWith	Jean-Michel Basquiat NERFINISHED ⓘ SAMO NERFINISHED ⓘ
belongsToPeriod	late 1970s ⓘ
boroughContext	Manhattan NERFINISHED ⓘ
cityOfOrigin	New York City NERFINISHED ⓘ
createdInContextOf	New York City graffiti scene ⓘ
critiques	organized religion ⓘ philosophy ⓘ politics ⓘ
culturalContext	downtown New York art scene ⓘ
culturalSignificance	example of early Basquiat text-based work ⓘ
expresses	anti-establishment sentiment ⓘ skepticism toward ideology ⓘ social critique ⓘ
hasCopyrightSymbol	© GENERATED ⓘ
hasStyle	cryptic ⓘ
hasTone	subversive ⓘ
intendedAudience	urban passersby ⓘ
language	English ⓘ
medium	street art ⓘ
modeOfDistribution	illicit wall writing ⓘ
movement	neo-expressionism (contextual association via Basquiat) ⓘ street art ⓘ
notableLocation	Lower East Side NERFINISHED ⓘ SoHo NERFINISHED ⓘ
partOf	SAMO graffiti project NERFINISHED ⓘ
questions	authority of religion ⓘ credibility of academic philosophy ⓘ legitimacy of politics ⓘ
relatedTo	other SAMO© slogans ⓘ
taggedBy	Al Diaz NERFINISHED ⓘ Jean-Michel Basquiat NERFINISHED ⓘ
theme	philosophical critique ⓘ political critique ⓘ religious critique ⓘ
usesArtForm	graffiti ⓘ
usesDevice	irony ⓘ slogan form ⓘ wordplay ⓘ

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