"Basquiat" redirects here. For the Julian Schnabel film, see Basquiat (film).
| Jean-Michel Basquiat | |
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| Born | December 22, 1960 Brooklyn, New York City |
| Died | August 12, 1988 (aged 27) Manhattan, New York City |
| Nationality | Haitian-American |
| Field | Graffiti, painting, poetry, musician, producer |
| Movement | Neo-expressionism, primitivism |
| Influenced by | Jean Dubuffet, Pablo Picasso, Robert Rauschenberg, Cy Twombly, Andy Warhol |
Jean-Michel Basquiat (December 22, 1960 – August 12, 1988) was an American artist.[1] He began as an obscure graffiti artist in New York City in the late 1970s and evolved into an acclaimed Neo-expressionist and Primitivist painter by the 1980s.
Throughout his career Basquiat focused on "suggestive dichotomies," such as wealth versus poverty, integration versus segregation, and inner versus outer experience.[2] Basquiat's art utilized a synergy of appropriation, poetry, drawing and painting, which married text and image, abstraction and figuration, and historical information mixed with contemporary critique.[3]
Utilizing social commentary as a "springboard to deeper truths about the individual",[2] Basquiat's paintings also attacked 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]
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