Jean Michel Basquiat
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Neo-expressionism. Website. basquiat.com. Jean-Michel Basquiat (French pronunciation: [ʒɑ̃ miʃɛl baskja]; December 22, 1960 – August 12, 1988) was an American artist who rose to success during the 1980s as part of the Neo-expressionism movement.
Jun 21, 2024 · Jean-Michel Basquiat was a Neo-Expressionist painter in the 1980s. He is best known for his primitive style and his collaboration with pop artist Andy Warhol. By Biography.com Editors Updated:...
Basquiat continues to make cartoonlike drawings inspired by Alfred Hitchcock films, automobiles, comic books, and the Alfred E. Newman character from Mad. “He was always so bright, absolutely an unbelievable mind …. He drew and painted all of his life from the time he was three or four years old” (Gerard Basquiat). 3
Basquiat was a precocious child who learned how to read and write by age four and was a gifted artist. His teachers, such as artist Jose Machado, noticed his artistic abilities, and his mother encouraged her son's artistic talent. By the age of 11, Basquiat was fully fluent in French, Spanish and English.
Sep 18, 2024 · Jean-Michel Basquiat was an American painter known for his raw gestural style of painting with graffiti-like images and scrawled text. Basquiat was raised in a middle-class home in Brooklyn. His mother was an American of Puerto Rican descent.
Jean-Michel Basquiat emerged in New York as a gritty, street-smart graffiti artist crossing over from downtown origins to art gallery stardom.
Basquiat's art focused on dichotomies such as wealth versus poverty, integration versus segregation, and inner versus outer experience. He appropriated poetry, drawing, and painting, and married text and image, abstraction, figuration, and historical information mixed with contemporary critique.
Basquiat’s life and work continue to inspire discussion, influence generations of artists and art in all its forms and make history worldwide. “Jean-Michel lived like a flame. He burned really bright. Then the fire went out. But the embers are still hot” – Fred Braithwaite
Dec 22, 2020 · The documentary Boom for Real: The Late Teenage Years of Jean-Michel Basquiat details the formative experience of gaining “his first stable home” in 1979, according to Alexis Adler, his ...
Jean-Michel Basquiat was an influential African-American artist who rose to success during the 1980s. View Jean-Michel Basquiat’s 3,911 artworks on artnet. Find an in-depth biography, exhibitions, original artworks for sale, the latest news, and sold auction prices.
