Jean- Michel Basquiat
American Artist (1960 - 1988)
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American Artist (1960 - 1988)
Curb your excitement - These do not have COA yet!
Dimensions: 6 1/4 x 4 in
Dimensions: 6 1/4 x 4 in
Dimension: 5 1/2 x 3 1/2 in
Dimensions: 6 1/4 x 4 inches
Dimensions: 6 1/4 x 4 inches
Signed by artist
c.
Dimensions: 9 1/4 x 11 3/4
Signed by artist
c. 1983
Dimensions: 8 x 10 inches
Signed by artist
c. 1981
Dimensions: 13 1/4 x 17 1/2 inches
Signed by artist
Paint on Canvas
c.1981
Dimensions: 16 x 20 inches
signed by artist
c. 1981
Framed: 9 3/4 x 11 3/4 inches
Inside Frame: 7 1/2 x 9 1/2 inches
Jean-Michel Basquiat (French: [ʒɑ̃ miʃɛl baskja]; December 22, 1960 – August 12, 1988) was an American artist who rose to success during the 1980s. Regarded as one of the most influential artists of the 20th century, he was part of the Neo-expressionism movement.
Basquiat first achieved fame as part of SAMO, a graffiti duo who wrote enigmatic epigrams in the cultural hotbed of the Lower East Side of Manhattan during the late 1970s, where rap, punk, and street art coalesced into early hip-hop music culture. By the early 1980s, 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. At 22, he was the youngest to exhibit at the Whitney Biennial in New York. The Whitney Museum of American Art held a retrospective of his art work in 1992.
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 of his time, as well as attacks on power structures and systems of racism. His visual poetics were acutely political and direct in their criticism of colonialism and support for class struggle.
Since Basquiat's death at the age of 27 from a heroin overdose in 1988, his work has steadily increased in value. At a Sotheby's auction in May 2017, Untitled, a 1982 painting by Basquiat depicting a black skull with red and yellow rivulets, sold for $110.5 million, becoming one of the most expensive paintings ever purchased. It also set a new record high for an American artist at auction.
From Wikipedia
Downtown 81 is a 2000 American film that was shot in 1980-1981.[3] The film was directed by Edo Bertoglio and written and produced by Glenn O'Brien and Patrick Montgomery, with post-production in 1999-2000 by Glenn O'Brien and Maripol. It is a rare real-life snapshot of an ultra-hip subculture of post-punk era Manhattan. Starring renowned artist Jean-Michel Basquiat and featuring such East Village artists such as James Chance, Amos Poe, Walter Steding, Tav Falco and Elliott Murphy, the film is a bizarre elliptical urban fairy tale. In 1999, Michael Zilkha, founder of ZE Records (the label of several of the film's artists), became the film's executive producer.
Jean-Michel Basquiat
Photo Basquiat by William Coupon in 1986
Born December 22, 1960
New York City, U.S.
Died August 12, 1988 (aged 27) New York City, U.S.
Cause of death Heroin overdose
Resting place Green-Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn, NY
Style. Graffiti street art