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View all 157 artworks. Jean-Michel Basquiat lived in the XX cent., a remarkable figure of American Neo-Expressionism and Street art. Find more works of this artist at Wikiart.org – best visual art database.
- American
- December 22, 1960
- Brooklyn, New York City, United States
- August 12, 1988
- Childhood
- Early Training
- Mature Period
- The Legacy of Jean-Michel Basquiat
Jean-Michel Basquiat was born in Brooklyn in 1960. His mother, Matilde Andradas was born also born in Brooklyn but to parents from Puerto Rico. His father, Gerard Basquiat, was an immigrant from Port-au-Prince, Haiti. As a result of this mixed heritage the young Jean-Michel was fluent in both French and Spanish as well as English. His early reading...
As Basquiat stated, "I never went to art school. I failed the art courses that I did take in school. I just looked at a lot of things. And that’s how I learnt about art, by looking at it". Basquiat's art was fundamentally rooted in the New York City graffiti scene of the 1970s. After becoming involved in an Upper West Side drama group called Family...
1982 was a significant year for Basquiat. He opened six solo shows in cities across the world, and became the youngest artist ever to be included in Documenta, the prestigious international contemporary art extravaganza held every five years in Kassel, Germany. During this time, Basquiat created some 200 art works and developed a signature motif: a...
In his short life Jean-Michel Basquiat nonetheless came to play an important and historic role in the rise of the downtown cultural scene in New York and Neo-Expressionism more broadly. While the larger public latched on to the superficial exoticism of his work and were captivated by his overnight celebrity, his art, which has often been described ...
- Bonnie Rosenberg
- December 22, 1960
- American
- August 12, 1988
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.
The names of famous Black male cultural figures—music and sports stars including Thelonious Monk, Charlie Parker, Floyd Patterson, and Cassius Clay (Mohammad Ali)—are etched on his canvases as affirming cultural signifiers for Basquiat’s art on his way to stardom.
The following is a list of significant artworks by the American artist Jean-Michel Basquiat (1960–1988), who played a historic role in the rise of street art and neo-expressionism. During his short yet productive career, Basquiat created more than 600 paintings and 1,500 drawings. [1]
YearTitleMediumDimensions1980Untitled (Car Crash)Acrylic and oilstick on burlap41 x 70 1/2 in1980Minor SuccessAcrylic, oil stick and gold paint on ...43 1/4 x 22 3/8 in1981UntitledAcrylic, oilstick, pencil, spray paint, ...48 x 30 in1981UntitledAcrylic, oilstick and spray paint on ...78 1/2 x 72 inBasquiat’s artwork is a reaction against the representation of African Americans in the entertainment industry. A self-portrait of Jean-Michel Basquiat and his buddies painters Toxic and Rammellzee is set on a beautiful yellow background in the midst of Hollywood Africans.
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