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Quoted in Henry Geldzahler, “Art: From Subways to SoHo, Jean-Michel Basquiat,” Interview, 13 (January ), pp.

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Paige Powell, interview with the author, March 9,

Quoted in Ellen Lubell, “New Kid on the (Auction) Block,” The Village Voice, May 29, , p.

Vivien Raynor, “Art: Paintings by Jean-Michel Basquiat at Boone,” The New York Times, May 11, , p.

Kate Linker, “Jean-Michel Basquiat,” Artforum, 23 (October ), p.

Melode Ferguson, interview with the author, March 23,

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McGuigan, “New Art, New Money,” p.

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Fay Gold, interview with the author, April 13,

Quoted in Phoebe Hoban, “SAMO© …Is Dead: The Fall of Jean-Michel Basquiat,” New York, September 26, , p.

Quoted in ibid., p.

Quoted in ibid., p.

Geoff Dunlop, “Jean-Michel Basquiat: Shooting Star” (videotape). London: Illuminations Production,

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Quoted in Hoban, “SAMO Is Dead,” p.

«I start with a picture and then finish it.

I don't think about art when I'm working.

I try to think about life.»

Jean-Michel Basquiat,

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Jean-Michel Basquiat ()

Mainly compiled by Anna Karina Hofbauer,

This chronology is based on various sources, notably the chronology by Franklin Sirmans.

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Jean-Michel Basquiat is born on December 22, , in Brooklyn, New York. His father Gérard Basquiat is Haitian and his mother Matilde Andrades was born to Puerto Rican parents. The Basquiats live in Park Slope, Brooklyn.

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His sister Lisane is born.

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Basquiat and his mother often visit the Brooklyn Museum, the Museum of Modern Art, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art. His mother continually encourages his interest in art and emphasizes its importance. Basquiat attends kindergarten at a Head Start Project school.

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His sister Jeanine is born. Basquiat attends St Ann’s, a private Catholic school in Brooklyn.

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Basquiat makes cartoonlike drawings inspired by Alfred Hitchcock films, cars, comic books, and the Alfred E. Neuman character from Mad magazine. In May, he is hit by a car while playing ball in the street; Basquiat breaks an arm, suffers various internal injuries, and has to have his spleen removed. Basquiat stays at King’s County Hospital, Brooklyn, for a month. During this sojourn, his mother gives him a copy of Gray’s Anatomy, which makes an everlasting impression on him and influences his later work with anatomical drawings and prints. Gérard and Matilde Basquiat separate; Basquiat and his sisters live with their father.

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Following a promotion, Gérard Basquiat and his children move to San Juan, Puerto Rico. Basquiat attends an Episcopalian school.

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The Basquiat family returns to live in their brownstone in Boerum Hill, Brooklyn, and Jean-Michel Basquiat continues his studies at Edward R. Mur

American artist (–)

"Basquiat" redirects here. For other uses, see Basquiat (disambiguation).

Jean-Michel Basquiat (French pronunciation:[ʒɑ̃miʃɛlbaskja]; December 22, – August 12, ) was an American artist who rose to success during the s as part of the Neo-expressionism movement.

Basquiat first achieved notoriety in the late s as part of the graffiti duo SAMO, alongside Al Diaz, writing enigmatic epigrams all over Manhattan, particularly in the cultural hotbed of the Lower East Side where rap, punk, and street art coalesced into early hip-hop culture. By the early s, his paintings were being exhibited in galleries and museums internationally. At 21, Basquiat became the youngest artist to ever take part in Documenta in Kassel, Germany. At 22, he became one of the youngest to exhibit at the Whitney Biennial in New York. The Whitney Museum of American Art held a retrospective of his artwork in

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. He used social commentary in his paintings as a tool for introspection and for identifying with his experiences in the black community, as well as attacks on power structures and systems of racism.

Since his death at the age of 27 in , Basquiat's work has steadily increased in value. In , Untitled, a painting depicting a black skull with red and yellow rivulets, sold for a record-breaking $ million, becoming one of the most expensive paintings ever purchased.

Biography

Early life: –

Basquiat was born on December 22, , in Park Slope, Brooklyn, New York City, the second of four children to Matilde Basquiat (née Andrades, –) and Gérard Basquiat (–). He had an older brother, Max, who died shortly before his birth

Summary of Jean-Michel Basquiat

Jean-Michel Basquiat moved from graffiti artist to downtown punk scenester to celebrity art star in only the few short years of his career. This vertiginous rise took him from sleeping on the streets of New York City to being befriended by Andy Warhol and entering into the elite American art world as one of the most celebrated painters of the Neo-Expressionism art movement. Whilst Basquiat died at only 27 of a heroin overdose, he has now become indelibly associated with the surge in interest in downtown artists in New York during the s.

His work explored his mixed African, Latinx, and American heritage through a visual vocabulary of personally resonant signs, symbols, and figures, and his art developed rapidly in scale, scope, and ambition as he moved from the street to the gallery. Much of his work referenced the distinction between wealth and poverty, and reflected his unique position as a working-class person of color within the celebrity art world. In the years following his death, the attention to (and value of) his work has steadily increased, with one painting even setting a new record in for the highest price paid for an American artist's work at auction.

Accomplishments

• Basquiat's work mixed together many different styles and techniques. His paintings often included words and text, his graffiti was expressive and often abstract, and his logos and iconography had a deep historical resonance. Despite his work's "unstudied" appearance, he very skillfully and purposefully brought together a host of disparate traditions, practices, and styles to create his signature visual collage.
• Many of his artworks reflect an opposition or tension between two poles - rich and poor, black and white, inner and outer experience. This tension and contrast reflected his mixed cultural heritage and experiences growing up and living within New York City and in America more generally.
• Basquiat's work is an example of how American artists