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1960 New York City - 1988 New York City. Known for: Street-graffiti, naive figure painting, drawing.
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Noted for his graffiti street paintings under the name pseudonym 'SAMO', Jean-Michel Basquiat was born in Brooklyn. His father was Haitian-born Gerard Basquiat. His mother, Matilde Andradas, had been... Read full biography
Noted for his graffiti street paintings under the name pseudonym 'SAMO', Jean-Michel Basquiat was born in Brooklyn. His father was Haitian-born Gerard Basquiat. His mother, Matilde Andradas, had been born in Brooklyn of Puerto Rican parents. He had two sisters (born in 1963 and 1966) also born in... Read full biography
Noted for his graffiti street paintings under the name pseudonym 'SAMO', Jean-Michel Basquiat was born in Brooklyn. His father was Haitian-born Gerard Basquiat. His mother, Matilde Andradas, had been born in Brooklyn of Puerto Rican parents. He had two sisters (born in 1963 and 1966) also born in Brooklyn. When only a small boy, Basquiat began drawing, inspired by the cartoons and Hitchcock films he watched on television. He also loved to read comic books and Mad Magazine, with its Alfred E.... Read full biography
Noted for his graffiti street paintings under the name pseudonym 'SAMO', Jean-Michel Basquiat was born in Brooklyn. His father was Haitian-born Gerard Basquiat. His mother, Matilde Andradas, had been born in Brooklyn of Puerto Rican parents. He had two sisters (born in 1963 and 1966) also born in Brooklyn. When only a small boy, Basquiat began drawing, inspired by the cartoons and Hitchcock films he watched on television. He also loved to read comic books and Mad Magazine, with its Alfred E. Neuman character. His mother encouraged this interest in art, and when he was only seven he produced a children's book with a friend, Mark Prozzo. When only eight, Basquiat was hit by a car while he played in the street, requiring him to spend a month... Read full biography
Noted for his graffiti street paintings under the name pseudonym 'SAMO', Jean-Michel Basquiat was born in Brooklyn. His father was Haitian-born Gerard Basquiat. His mother, Matilde Andradas, had been born in Brooklyn of Puerto Rican parents. He had two sisters (born in 1963 and 1966) also born in Brooklyn. When only a small boy, Basquiat began drawing, inspired by the cartoons and Hitchcock films he watched on television. He also loved to read comic books and Mad Magazine, with its Alfred E. Neuman character. His mother encouraged this interest in art, and when he was only seven he produced a children's book with a friend, Mark Prozzo. When only eight, Basquiat was hit by a car while he played in the street, requiring him to spend a month in the hospital. During this time his mother gave him a copy of the book, Gray's Anatomy... Read full biography
Jean-Michel Basquiat - Artist Info
About Jean-Michel Basquiat: Keywords
Keywords (56)
Art Method
- •Collage and/or Decoupage
- •Easel Painting
- •Graffiti Street Art Tagger, Urban Art
- •Graphic Design, Printmaking, Lithography, Etching, Woodblocks
- •Illustration, Illustrator
- •Installation Art
- •Murals: Design, Painting, Fresco, Mosaic, Glass
- •Sculpture, Three Dimensional Forms, Sculptor
- •Spray Can, Spray Gun Painting, Aerosol
Art Media
- •Acrylic Paint
- •Assemblage
- •Chalk
- •Charcoal
- •Colored Pencil
- •Conte Crayon
- •Crayon, Crayola Drawing
- •Gouache
- •Ink
- •Magic Marker, Sharpie, Felt-Tip Pen
- •Mixed Media, Multi Media and/or Multli Styles
- •Oil Paint
- •Pastel Painting/Drawing
- •Pen and Ink Drawing
- •Pencil, Graphite Drawing
- •Plastics
- •Tempera
- •Watercolor/Watercolour
- •Wood for carving, sculpture, and/or surface
Art Style
- •Abstraction, Abstract
- •Cartoon Drawing, Cartoon Figures
- •Folk Art, Naive, Primitive
- •Naive, Childlike, Intuitive
- •Pop Art, Popular Culture
Art Subject
- •Allegory, Metaphor, Parable
- •Animals, Mammals
- •Architecture Trained: Design and Drawing
- •Black, African Culture, Figure, Genre, Civil Rights
- •Caricatures
- •Figure, Figurative Humans
- •Human Head Images, Portrait Heads, Faces
- •Humor, Whimsy
- •Landscape, Nature, Rural Scene
- •Nude Figure, Nudity
- •Portraits, Portraiture
- •Self-Portrait
- •Street Scenes, Street Genre
Geography/Places Lived and/or Worked
- •Hawaiian Islands and/or South Seas, Tahiti, Bali
Chronology
- •Late 20th Century After 1950
Art Collection
- •Buried in Greenwood Cemetery, Brooklyn
- •Green-Wood Cemetery Collection
- •UBS-Paine Webber Collection
Added Description
- •Figure Specialty
- •Printmaking Specialty
Ethnicity of Artist
- •Black, African-American and/or Caribbean
Notable Commercial Gallery Representation, Pre 21s
- •Vose Galleries, Boston
Exhibition/Expo: Regional/National/International
- •Sao Paulo Bienniale