Jean-Michel Basquiat Basquiat redirects here. For the Julian Schnabel film, see Basquiat (film). Jean-Michel Basquiat Born December 22, 1960 Brooklyn, New York City, NY Died August 12, 1988 (aged 27) NoHo, New York City, NY Nationality Haitian-American Field Graffiti, painting, poetry, musician, producer Movement Neo-expressionism, primitivism Jean-Michel Basquiat (December 22, 1960 – August 12, 1988) was a Haitian-American artist.[1] Basquiat first achieved notoriety as part of SAMO, an informal graffiti group who wrote enigmatic epigrams in the cultural hotbed of the Lower East Side of Manhattan, New York City during the late 1970s where the hip hop, post-punk and street art movements had coalesced. By the 1980s he was exhibiting his Neo-expressionist and Primitivist paintings in galleries and museums internationally, but he died of a heroin overdose at the age of 27 in 1988. The Whitney Museum of American Art held a retrospective of his art in 1992. Basquiats art focused on suggestive dichotomies, such as wealth versus poverty, integration versus segregation, and inner versus outer experience.[2] He appropriated poetry, drawing and painting, and married text and image, abstraction and figuration, and historical information mixed with contemporary critique.[3] Basquiat used social commentary in his paintings as a springboard to deeper truths about the individual,[2] as well as attacks on power structures and systems of racism, while his poetics were acutely political and direct in their criticism of colonialism and support for class struggle.[3] Early life Career Final years and death Artistic styles Exhibitions Legacy Collections Art market See also External links References Further reading External linksRead in another language Last modified 20 hours ago MobileDesktop Content is available under CC BY-SA 3.0 unless otherwise noted. Terms of usePrivacy
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