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Untitled (Skull), 1981 by Jean-Michel Basquiat
Untitled (Skull), 1981 by Jean-Michel Basquiat
Boy and Dog In A Johnnyjump, 1982 (Cropped) by Jean-Michel Basquiat
Boy and Dog In A Johnnyjump, 1982 (Cropped) by Jean-Michel Basquiat

Jean-Michel Basquiat (December 22, 1960, Brooklyn - August 12, 1988, New York, New York) was an American artist. Events 1790 - The Turkish fortress of Izmail is stormed and captured by Suvorov and his Russian armies Year 1960 ( MCMLX) was a Leap year starting on Friday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Brooklyn (named after the Dutch town Breukelen) is one of the five boroughs of New York City. Events 1099 - First Crusade: Battle of Ascalon - Crusaders under the command of Godfrey of Bouillon defeat Fatimid Year 1988 ( MCMLXXXVIII) was a Leap year starting on Friday (link displays 1988 Gregorian calendar) New York ( is a state in the Mid-Atlantic and Northeastern regions of the United States and is the nation's third most populous New York ( is a state in the Mid-Atlantic and Northeastern regions of the United States and is the nation's third most populous The United States of America —commonly referred to as the The definition of an artist is wide-ranging and covers a broad spectrum of Activities to do with creating Art, practicing the Arts and/or demonstrating He gained popularity, first as a graffiti artist in New York City, and then as a successful 1980s-era Neo-expressionist artist. Graffiti (singular graffito; the plural is used as a Mass noun) is the name for images or lettering scratched scrawled painted or marked in any manner on property The City of New York Neo-expressionism was a style of modern Painting that emerged in the late 1970s and dominated the art market until the mid-1980s Basquiat's paintings continue to influence modern day artists and command high prices. Painting (pān'tīng in Art, is the practice of applying Color to a Surface (support base such as e

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Biography

Basquiat's mother, Matilde, was Puerto Rican and his father, Gerard Jean-Baptiste, is of Haitian origin and a former Haitian Minister of the Interior. Puerto Rico (ˌpwertoˈriko officially the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico ("Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico" {{lang-en|"Associated Free State of Puerto Rico"}} Haiti ( English: ˈheɪ·tiː or haɪ·ˈjiː·tiː French Haïti a·i·ti Haitian Creole: Because of his parents' nationalities, Basquiat was fluent in French, Spanish, and English and often read Symbolist poetry, mythology, history and medical texts, particularly Gray's Anatomy in those languages. The word mythology (from the Greek grc μυθολογία mythología, meaning "a story-telling a legendary lore" Henry Gray's Anatomy of the Human Body (or Gray's Anatomy as it has commonly been shortened is an English-language Human anatomy Textbook [1] At an early age, Basquiat displayed an aptitude for art and was encouraged by his mother to draw, paint, and to participate in other art-related activities. In 1977, when he was 17, Basquiat and his friend Al Diaz started spray-painting graffiti art on slum buildings in lower Manhattan, adding the infamous signature of "SAMO" or "SAMO shit" (i. Graffiti (singular graffito; the plural is used as a Mass noun) is the name for images or lettering scratched scrawled painted or marked in any manner on property Manhattan Island, in New York Harbor, is much the largest part of the Borough of Manhattan, one of the Five Boroughs which form the City of New York e. , "same ol' shit"). The graphics were pithy messages such as "Plush safe he think; SAMO" and "SAMO is an escape clause". In December 1978, the Village Voice published an article about the writings. This article is about a New York newspaper For the Ottawa Hills Ohio magazine see The Village Voice of Ottawa Hills. [2] The SAMO project ended with the epitaph SAMO IS DEAD written on the walls of SoHo buildings. This article is about an area of Manhattan, New York City. For the area in London UK see Soho.

In 1978, Basquiat dropped out of high school and left home, a year before graduating. He moved into the city and lived with friends, surviving by selling T-shirts and postcards on the street, and working in the Unique Clothing Warehouse on Broadway. By 1979, however, Basquiat gained a certain celebrity status amidst the thriving art scene of Manhattan's East Village, for his regular appearances on Glenn O'Brien's live public-access cable show, TV Party . Manhattan Island, in New York Harbor, is much the largest part of the Borough of Manhattan, one of the Five Boroughs which form the City of New York The East Village is a neighborhood in the borough of Manhattan in New York City. Glenn O'Brien is primarily a writer of non-fiction articles largely on the subjects of music and fashion TV Party is also an EP by Black Flag TV Party was a Cable access TV show in New York City In the late 1970s, Basquiat formed a band called Gray, with the then-unknown musician and actor Vincent Gallo. Vincent Gallo (born in Buffalo New York on April 11, 1961) is an American Film Actor and director, Gray played at clubs such as Max's Kansas City, CBGB, Hurrahs, and the Mudd Club. CBGB ( Country, Blue Grass, and Blues) was a music club at 315 Bowery at Bleecker Street in the borough of Manhattan The Mudd Club was a TriBeCa Nightclub that was opened in October 1978 by publisher Steve Mass art curator Diego Cortez and singer Anya Philips. Basquiat worked with Gallo again in a film Downtown 81 (a. Downtown 81 (aka New York Beat Movie) is a film that was shot in 1980 - 1981. k. a New York Beat Movie) which featured some of Gray's rare recordings on its soundtrack. [3] He also appeared in Blondie's video "Rapture" as a replacement for DJ Grandmaster Flash when he was a no-show. Blondie is an American rock band that first gained fame in the late 1970s and has so far sold over 60 million records " Rapture " is a single by Blondie. It was released in January 1981 during the height of the band's success and became one of the first substantial hit singles Joseph Saddler (born January 1, 1958 in Bridgetown Barbados) better known as Grandmaster Flash, is an American Hip hop musician

Basquiat first started to gain recognition as an artist in June 1980, when he participated in The Times Square Show, a multi-artist exhibition, sponsored by Collaborative Projects Incorporated (Colab). Colab is the commonly used abbreviation of the New York City artists' group Collaborative Projects, which was formed in 1978 after a series of open meetings between In 1981, poet, art critic and cultural provocateur Rene Ricard published "The Radiant Child" in Artforum magazine, helping to launch Basquiat's career to an international stage. Rene Ricard (b 1946, Boston Massachusetts) (the name is sometimes spelled without an accent is an American Poet. Artforum is an international monthly magazine specializing in Contemporary art. During the next few years, he continued exhibiting his works around New York alongside artists such as Keith Haring, Barbara Kruger, as well as internationally, promoted by such gallery owners and patrons as Annina Nosei, Vrej Baghoomian, Larry Gagosian, Mary Boone and Bruno Bischofberger. Keith Haring ( May 4, 1958 – February 16, 1990) was an artist and social activist whose work responded to the New York City Barbara Kruger (born 1945 is an American conceptual artist She was born in Newark New Jersey and left there in 1964 to attend Syracuse University. Larry Gagosian (born April 19, 1945, Los Angeles) born Lawrence Gilbert Gagosian is an Armenian-American Art dealer who Mary Boone (born October 29, 1951) is the owner and director of the Mary Boone Gallery and was instrumental in the New York art market of the 1980's Bruno Bischofberger (born 1940 is an Art dealer and gallerist from Zurich, Switzerland.

By 1982, Basquiat was showing regularly alongside Julian Schnabel, David Salle, Francesco Clemente and Enzo Cucchi, thus becoming part of a loose-knit group that art-writers, curators, and collectors would soon be calling the Neo-expressionist movement. Julian Schnabel (born 26 October 1951) is a American Artist and Filmmaker. David Salle (born 1952 is an American painter and leading contemporary figurative artist Francesco Clemente (born in Naples, 23 March 1952) is an Italian painter. Enzo Cucchi (born in Morro d'Alba, Province of Ancona, 14 November 1949) is an Italian painter Neo-expressionism was a style of modern Painting that emerged in the late 1970s and dominated the art market until the mid-1980s He started dating an aspiring and then-unknown performer named Madonna in the fall of 1982. Madonna Louise Ciccone Ritchie (born August 16 1958 known as Madonna, is an American In 1982, Basquiat met Andy Warhol, with whom he collaborated extensively, eventually forging a close, if strained, friendship. For the song by David Bowie, see Andy Warhol (song. Andrew Warhola (August 6 1928 &ndash February 22 1987 known as Andy Warhol He was also briefly involved with artist David Bowes. David Bowes is an American painter born in Boston Massachusetts in 1957 and first recognized during the early 1980s in New York's East Village [4][5]

By 1984, many of Basquiat's friends were concerned about his excessive drug use and increasingly erratic behavior, including signs of paranoia. Recreational drug use is the use of Psychoactive drugs for Recreational purposes rather than for work, medical or spiritual purposes Basquiat had developed a frequent heroin habit by this point, starting from his early years living among the junkies and street artists in New York's underground. Heroin ( INN: diacetylmorphine, BAN: diamorphine) is a semi-synthetic opioid synthesized from Morphine, a derivative On February 10, 1985, Basquiat appeared on the cover of The New York Times Magazine in a feature entitled "New Art, New Money: The Marketing of an American Artist". The New York Times Magazine is a supplement to the Sunday The New York Times newspaper As Basquiat's international success heightened, his works were shown in solo exhibitions across major European capitals.

Basquiat died of mixed-drug toxicity (he had been combining cocaine and heroin, known as "speedballing") in his Great Jones Street loft/studio in 1988 several days before what would have been Basquiat's second trip to the Côte d'Ivoire. Speedballing (alternatively known as snowballing) is a term commonly referring to the Intravenous use of heroin or morphine and Cocaine together in Côte d'Ivoire (ˌkoʊt divˈwɑː(r ' in English, kot diˈvwaʀ in French) or Ivory Coast, officially the Republic of Côte d'Ivoire, is a After his death, a film biography entitled Basquiat was made, directed by Julian Schnabel, with actor Jeffrey Wright playing Basquiat. A biographical motion picture &mdash often shortened to biopic &mdash is a film that dramatizes the life of an actual person or people Basquiat is a 1996 film directed by Julian Schnabel which is based on the life of American postmodernist / neo expressionist artist Julian Schnabel (born 26 October 1951) is a American Artist and Filmmaker. For the Austalian film director see Geoffrey Wright. Jeffrey Wright (born December 7, 1965) is an American multiple award-winning Film

Artistic activities

Basquiat's art career is known for his three broad, though overlapping styles. In the earliest period, from 1980 to late 1982, Basquiat used painterly gestures on canvas, often depicting skeletal figures and mask-like faces that expressed his obsession with mortality. Other frequently depicted imagery such as automobiles, buildings, police, children's sidewalk games, and graffiti came from his experience painting on the city streets. A middle period from late 1982 to 1985 featured multipanel paintings and individual canvases with exposed stretcher bars, the surface dense with writing, collage and seemingly unrelated imagery.

These works reveal a strong interest in Basquiat's black identity and his identification with historical and contemporary black figures and events. On one occasion Basquiat painted his girlfriend's dress, with his words, a "Little Shit Brown". The final period, from about 1986 to Basquiat's death in 1988, displays a new type of figurative depiction, in a new style with different symbols and content from new sources. This period seems to have also had a profound impact on the styles of artists who admired Basquiat's work. Basquiat's lasting creative influence is immediately recognizable in the work of subsequent and self-taught generational artists such as Mark Gonzales, Kelly D. Williams, and Raymond Morris. Mark Gonzales (born June 1 1969 also known as "Gonz" a professional Skateboarder and Artist.

In 1982, Basquiat became friends with pop artist Andy Warhol and the two made a number of collaborative works. For the song by David Bowie, see Andy Warhol (song. Andrew Warhola (August 6 1928 &ndash February 22 1987 known as Andy Warhol They also painted together, influencing each others' work. Some speculated that Andy Warhol was merely using Basquiat for some of his techniques and insight. Their relationship continued until Warhol's death in 1987. Warhol's death was very distressing for Basquiat, and it is speculated by Phoebe Hoban, in Basquiat, her 1998 biography on the artist, that Warhol's death was a turning point for Basquiat, and that afterwards his drug addiction and depression began to spiral.

Up until 2002, the highest mark that was paid for an original work of Basquiat's was $3,302,500 (set on 12 November 1998). See also 2002 (disambiguation Year 2002 ( MMII) was a Common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. Events 764 - Tibetan troops occupy Chang'an, the capital of the Chinese Tang Dynasty, for fifteen days Year 1998 ( MCMXCVIII) was a Common year starting on Thursday (link will display full 1998 Gregorian calendar) On 14 May 2002 Basquiat's "Profit I" (a large piece of art measuring 86. Events 1264 - Battle of Lewes: Henry III of England is captured in France making Simon de Montfort the See also 2002 (disambiguation Year 2002 ( MMII) was a Common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. 5" by 157. 5"), owned by heavy metal band Metallica co-founder Lars Ulrich, was put up for auction at Christie's. Metallica is an American heavy metal band that formed in 1981 in. Lars Ulrich (born December 26 1963) is a Danish Drummer best known as the co-founder of the American heavy metal Christie's is a leading art business and a fine arts Auction house It was there that the highest mark for a work of Basquiat's was set when "Profit I" sold for $5,509,500. [6] The proceedings of the auction are documented in the film Some Kind of Monster. Some Kind of Monster is a 2004 American Documentary film featuring the heavy metal band Metallica. On 15 May 2007, an untitled Basquiat work from 1981 smashed his previous record, selling at Sotheby's in New York for $14. Events 1252 - Pope Innocent IV issues the Papal bull Ad exstirpanda, which authorizes but also limits the Year 2007 ( MMVII) was a Common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. Sotheby's ( is the world's second oldest Auction house in continuous operation (the oldest being Stockholms Auktionsverk founded in 1674 6 million. [7].

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SAMO SHIT: Graffiti on an East Village bathroom wall imitating Jean-Michel Basquiat, who used to write the exact phrase on the walls of the East Village

Untitled acrylic, oilstick and spray paint on canvas painting by Jean-Michel Basquiat, 1981

Notes and references

  1. ^ Basquiat at Houston's Museum of Fine Arts, ARTINFO, November 20, 2006, <http://www.artinfo.com/news/story/1569/basquiat-at-houstons-museum-of-fine-arts/>. Graffiti (singular graffito; the plural is used as a Mass noun) is the name for images or lettering scratched scrawled painted or marked in any manner on property The East Village is a neighborhood in the borough of Manhattan in New York City. Retrieved on 21 April 2008 
  2. ^ Smith, Roberta. "Jean-Michel Basquiat and the Contemporary Art Scene", The Village Voice, 1982-03-23. This article is about a New York newspaper For the Ottawa Hills Ohio magazine see The Village Voice of Ottawa Hills. Year 1982 ( MCMLXXXII) was a Common year starting on Friday (link displays the 1982 Gregorian calendar) Events 1174 - Jocelin, Abbot of Melrose, is elected Bishop of Glasgow. Retrieved on 2008-02-05. 2008 ( MMVIII) is the current year in accordance with the Gregorian calendar, a Leap year that started on Tuesday of the Common Events 1576 - Henry of Navarre converts to Roman Catholicism in order to ensure his right to the throne of France.  
  3. ^ Kellman, Andy. Downtown 81 Original Soundtrack. Retrieved January 16, 2008, from http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:acfoxql0ldje
  4. ^ Hoban, Phoebe (2004). Basquiat: A Quick Killing in Art. Penguin USA. ISBN 0143035126.  
  5. ^ Randy P. Conner, David Hatfield Sparks, Queering Creole Spiritual Traditions, Haworth Press, 2004, p299. ISBN 1560233516
  6. ^ Horsley, Carter. Art/Auctions: Post-War & Contemporary Art evening auction, May 14, 2002 at Christie's. Retrieved on 2008-01-17. 2008 ( MMVIII) is the current year in accordance with the Gregorian calendar, a Leap year that started on Tuesday of the Common Events 38 BC - Octavian marries Livia Drusilla. 1287 - King Alfonso III of Aragon invades Minorca
  7. ^ Huge bids smash modern art record. BBC (2007-05-16). Year 2007 ( MMVII) was a Common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. Events 1204 - Baldwin IX Count of Flanders is crowned as the first Emperor of the Latin Empire. Retrieved on 2007-05-16. Year 2007 ( MMVII) was a Common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. Events 1204 - Baldwin IX Count of Flanders is crowned as the first Emperor of the Latin Empire.

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