- Jean-Michel Basquiat was a Neo-Expressionist painter in the 1980s. He is best known for his primitive style and his collaboration with pop artist Andy Warhol.
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- Jean-Michel Basquiat was an American painter known for his raw gestural style of painting with graffiti-like images and scrawled text.
- Jean-Michel Basquiat on the set of Downtown 81, via BBC. Born on December 22, 1960, Basquiat was from Brooklyn and grew up in a multicultural household.
- One of the most famous American artists of all time, Jean-Michel Basquiat first gained notoriety as a subversive graffiti-artist and street poet in the late 1970s.
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- When asked to describe his art, Jean-Michel Basquiat responded with customary aplomb: “royalty, heroism, and the streets.”
- He took the 1980s art world by storm – and then at just 27, he was gone. Alastair Sooke looks back at the short life and stunning work of Jean-Michel Basquiat.
- It struck me that there was a sort of continuity of form between the works of Richard Diebenkorn and that of the late ‘graffiti’ artist Jean-Michel Basquiat.
- Jean-Michel Basquiat was an American graffiti artist who was one of the leading lights of the neo expressionist era in the 1980s.