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Edward R. Murrow High School, 1600 Avenue L, Brooklyn, NY 11230, Stati Uniti
City-As-School, 16 Clarkson St, New York, NY 10014, Stati Uniti
57 Great Jones St, New York, NY 10012, USA
Green-Wood Cemetery, 500 25th St, Brooklyn, NY 11232, Stati Uniti
Jean-Michel
Basquiat (December 22, 1960 – August 12, 1988) was an American artist.[1]
Basquiat 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, punk, and street art
cultures had coalesced. By the 1980s, he was exhibiting his neo-expressionist
paintings in galleries and museums internationally. The Whitney Museum of
American Art held a retrospective of his art in 1992.
Basquiat's art focused on "suggestive dichotomies", such as wealth versus
poverty, integration versus segregation, and inner versus outer experience.[2]
He appropriated poetry, drawing, and painting, and married text and image,
abstraction, figuration, and historical information mixed with contemporary
critique.[3]
Basquiat used social commentary in his paintings as a "springboard to
deeper truths about the individual",[2]
as well as attacks on power structures and systems of racism, while his
poetics were acutely political and direct in their criticism of colonialism
and support for class struggle.[3]
He died of a heroin overdose at his art studio at the age of 27.[4]
On May 18, 2017, at a Sotheby's auction, a 1982 painting by Basquiat
depicting a skull ("Untitled") set a new record high for any American artist
at auction, selling for $110.5 million.[5]
Jennifer Clement (a friend of his long-term girlfriend Suzanne Mallouk)
specifically described his sexuality as "not monochromatic. It did not rely on
visual stimulation, such as a pretty girl. It was a very rich multichromatic
sexuality. He was attracted to people for all different reasons... It was, I
think, driven by intelligence. He was attracted to intelligence more than
anything and to pain."[77]
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