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Basquiat is a 1996 American biographical drama film directed, written and co-composed by Julian Schnabel in his feature directorial debut. The film is based on the life of American postmodernist/neo expressionist artist Jean-Michel Basquiat. It is the first film about an American painter written and directed by another artist.
Aug 9, 1996 · Basquiat: Directed by Julian Schnabel. With Jeffrey Wright, Michael Wincott, Benicio Del Toro, Claire Forlani. The brief life of Jean Michel Basquiat, a world renowned New York street artist struggling with fame, drugs and his identity.
Despite living a life of extreme poverty in Brooklyn, graffiti artist Jean-Michel Basquiat (Jeffrey Wright) strives to rise up through the heady New York art scene of the 1970s and 1980s.
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Basquiat soon becomes a close friend of Andy Warhol's, who in a remarkable performance by David Bowie comes across as preternaturally detached (that's not news) but also as gentle, open, accepting, and instinctively perceptive about new directions in art. When Basquiat is depressed by a magazine article depicting him as Warhol's “mascot,” a ...
Basquiat tells the story of the meteoric rise of youthful artist Jean Michel Basquiat. Starting out as a street artist, living in Thompkins Square Park in a cardboard box, Basquiat becomes a star and a part of Andy Warhol 's art world circle.
Jeffrey Wright (HBO's Boycott) stars in this portrait of Jean-Michel Basquiat, the troubled but talented New York artist who soared from living in a box in Tompkins Square Park to dazzling the downtown art scene with his inventive paintings.
Basquiat (1996) Jeffrey Wright, David Bowie. "The brief life of Jean Michel Basquiat, a world renowned New York street artist struggling with fame, drugs and his identity."
The brief life of Jean Michel Basquiat, a world renowned New York street artist struggling with fame, drugs and his identity.
Featuring a remarkable lead performance by Jeffrey Wright and a supporting cast including David Bowie, Gary Oldman, and Dennis Hopper, BASQUIAT is an evocative and deeply personal portrait of an artist who challenged the conventions of the art world and left an indelible mark on modern culture.
Basquiat. Directed by Julian Schnabel • 1996 • United States. Starring Jeffrey Wright, David Bowie, Dennis Hopper. Julian Schnabel brings the all-too-brief life and incandescent world of Jean-Michel Basquiat to the screen with this dreamily stylized tribute from one creative phenom to another.
