Jean Michel Basquiat

Basquiat, Jean Michel





Jean Michel Basquiat was born Dec 22 1960 BirthBrooklyn New York, USA.
Died Aug 12 1988 deathNew York.

New York City graffiti artist turned art world sensation, Jean-Michel Basquiat (using the tag SAMO, which means: Same Old Shit)was a self-taught African American painter who died in 1988 of a drug overdose at the age of 27. In the ten years before his death, he showed at prestigious galleries in the United States and Europe and painted collaborative works with Andy Warhol and Francesco Clemente.

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The extraordinary artist Jean-Michel Basquiat created paintings and drawings filled with imagery that describes his ideas about life and the world around him. This web site allows you to examine his works of art in depth and to learn about the images he used.
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Jean-Michel was far more close to his mother, Matilde. Matilde spoke Caribbean Spanish to young Jean and he learned the language early on. She took Jean to see museums and the paintings in them. In 1966, at the ripe old age of six, Jean-Michel already carried a card identifying him as a "junior member" of the Brooklyn Museum. In May of 1968, while playing softball on East 35th street in Brooklyn, a passing automobile hit Basquiat…
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