Jean
Michel Basquiat
(1960-1988)
American Artist
What identifies
Jean-Michel Basquiat as a major artist is courage
and full powers of self-transformation. That courage, meaning not
being afraid to fail, transforms paralyzingly self-conscious 'predicaments
of culture' into confident 'ecstasies of cultures recombined.' He
had the guts, what is more, to confront New York art challenge number
one: can you transform self and heritage into something new and
named? - Robert Farris Thompson
From
the streets of New York to the walls of its most prominent galleries,
young graffiti artist Jean-Michel Basquiat (1960-1988)
was catapulted to international fame in his early 20s and was
gone by age 27. The subject of a feature film by fellow artist
Julian Schnabel, Basquiat is one of the most
admired artists to emerge from the 1980s art boom.
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