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from trompe (deceives) + l’ (the) + œil (eye).
visual illusion in art, especially as used to trick the eye into perceiving a painted detail as a three-dimensional object.
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(Old High German) A seed.
(Bikol) Ours.
(Esperanto) The same.
SAMO was Jean-Michel Basquiat’s graffiti pseudonym in the late 1970s, standing for “Same Old Shit. ” It allowed him to post cryptic, ironic aphorisms across Manhattan.
Basquiat would eventually declare:
“SAMO IS DEAD”
after achieving worldwide recongition, implying with his arrival the “Same Old Shit” was dead, and something new was born.
TROMPE-L'ŒIL BY SAMO is an ecosystem of galleries, or an mythology of works in motion.
The Peanut’s characters symbolize different archetypes in this Mandala. These archetypes each serve different roles: Pure poetry, rough drafts, audio-visual art, performance art, philosophical art, and memetic art.
