Basquiat Paintings, Bio, Ideas | TheArtStory
Jean-Michel Basquiat emerged in New York as a gritty, street-smart graffiti artist crossing over from downtown origins to art gallery stardom.
Jean-Michel Basquiat - Wikipedia
Basquiat first achieved notoriety in the late 1970s as part of the graffiti duo SAMO, alongside Al Diaz, writing enigmatic epigrams all over Manhattan, particularly in the cultural hotbed of the …
Jean-Michel Basquiat | Neo-Expressionist Painter, Graffiti Artist ...
2024年10月28日 · Jean-Michel Basquiat (born December 22, 1960, Brooklyn, New York, U.S.—died August 12, 1988, New York City) was an American painter known for his raw …
How Jean-Michel Basquiat and His Peers Made Graffiti Mainstream
2020年11月3日 · Contemporary accounts tend to mythologize the brief life of Jean-Michel Basquiat, who rocketed from New York City’s underground graffiti culture to worldwide acclaim …
Basquiat: How the Graffiti Artist Became an Art-World Legend
2017年10月17日 · This is the prescient opening line of writer Glenn O’Brien’s film Downtown 81 (1981/2000), starring a brash yet buoyant Jean-Michel Basquiat as a struggling young artist …
Jean-Michel Basquiat - Art, Death & Paintings - Biography
2024年6月21日 · Basquiat first attracted attention for his graffiti in New York City in the late 1970s, under the name "SAMO." Working with a close friend, he tagged subway trains and Manhattan...
Jean-Michel Basquiat - MoMA
Basquiat first achieved notoriety in the late 1970s as part of the graffiti duo SAMO, alongside Al Diaz, writing enigmatic epigrams all over Manhattan, particularly in the cultural hotbed of the …
Jean-Michel Basquiat, From Street Artist to Star of the Art Scene
In the early 1980s, he was an important figure in the New York art scene and enjoyed his rapidly growing international fame, symbolizing the art world’s recognition of graffiti, and the counter …
The Meaning and Stories of Basquiat's Paintings and Graffiti
While Basquiat was a graffiti artist early in life, tagging the grubby streets of late 70s Manhattan with cryptic poems, he preferred not to be introduced that way. It was yet another symptom of …
Graffiti as High Art: Jean-Michel Basquiat - Unit
2018年6月1日 · A rebel, poet, musician and graffiti artist in the late 1970s, Basquiat became notorious for his trademark style – obsessive scribbling, curious symbols and skull-laden …