Jean michel basquiat bio
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Jean‐Michel Basquiat
Jean-Michel Basquiat was born in Brooklyn to Haitian and Puerto Rican parents in , and left home as a teenager to live in Lower Manhattan, playing in a noise band, painting, and supporting himself with odd jobs. In the late s, he and Al Diaz became known for their graffiti, a series of cryptic statements, such as “Playing Art with Daddy’s Money” and “9 to 5 Clone,” tagged SAMO. In , after a group of artists from the punk and graffiti underground held the “Times Square Show,” Basquiat’s paintings began to attract attention from the art world.
In the article “The Radiant Child,” which helped catapult Basquiat to fame, critic Rene Ricard wrote, “We are no longer collecting art we are buying individuals. This is no piece by Samo. This is a piece of Samo.” This statement captures the market-driven ethos of the s art boom that coincided with polarizing views played out in government and media, known as the culture wars. In this context, Basquiat was keenly
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Who Was Jean-Michel Basquiat?
Jean-Michel Basquiat first attracted attention for his graffiti beneath the name "SAMO" in New York City. He sold sweatshirts and postcards featuring his artwork on the streets before his painting career took off. He collaborated with Andy Warhol in the mids, which resulted in a show of their work. Basquiat died on August 12, , in New York City.
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Early Life
Basquiat was born in Brooklyn, New York, on månad 22, With a Haitian-American father and a Puerto Rican mother, Basquiat's diverse cultural heritage was one of his many sources of inspiration.
A self-taught artist, Basquiat began drawing at an early age on sheets of paper his father, an accountant, brought home from the office. As he delved deeper into his creative side, his mother strongly encouraged him to pursue his artistic talents.
Basquiat
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Jean-Michel Basquiat
American artist (–)
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Jean-Michel Basquiat (French pronunciation:[ʒɑ̃miʃɛlbaskja]; December 22, – August 12, ) was an American artist who rose to success during the s as part of the Neo-expressionism movement.
Basquiat first achieved notoriety in the late s as part of the graffiti duo SAMO, alongside Al Diaz, writing enigmatic epigrams all over Manhattan, particularly in the cultural hotbed of the Lower East Side where rap, punk, and street art coalesced into early hip-hop culture. By the early s, his paintings were being exhibited in galleries and museums internationally. At 21, Basquiat became the youngest artist to ever take part in Documenta in Kassel, Germany. At 22, he became one of the youngest to exhibit at the Whitney Biennial in New York. The Whitney Museum of American Art held a retrospective of his artwork in
Basquiat's art focused on dichotomies such as wealth