Format: Drawing with text & image – acrylic, charcoal, crayon, pastel, pencil
Artist: Jean-Michel Basquiat (1960–1988)
An American neo-expressionist artist who first achieved fame as part of SAM
Format: Drawing with text & image – acrylic, charcoal, crayon, pastel, pencil
Artist: Jean-Michel Basquiat (1960–1988)
An American neo-expressionist artist who first achieved fame as part of SAMO©, an informal graffiti duo who wrote enigmatic epigrams in the cultural hotbed of the Lower East Side of Manhattan during the late 1970s where the hip hop, post-punk, and street art movements had coalesced.
Website: Jean-Michel Basquiat
A poet, musician, and graffiti prodigy in late-1970s New York, Jean-Michel Basquiat had honed his signature painting style of obsessive scribbling, elusive symbols and diagrams, and mask-and-skull imagery by the time he was 20. “I don’t think about art while I work,” he once said. “I think about life.” Basquiat drew his subjects from his own Caribbean heritage—his father was Haitian and his mother of Puerto Rican descent—and a convergence of African-American, African, and Aztec cultural histories with Classical themes and contemporary hero