Jean-Michel Basquiat Born ( 1960-12-22)December 22, 1960,,, U.S. Died August 12, 1988 ( 1988-08-12) (aged 27), New York City, New York, U.S. Jr Typing Key. Bachianas Brasileiras Guitar Pdf Classical more. Style, Movement, Website Jean-Michel Basquiat ( French:; December 22, 1960 – August 12, 1988) was an American artist. Basquiat first achieved fame as part of, an informal graffiti duo who wrote enigmatic in the cultural hotbed of the of during the late 1970s where the,, and movements had coalesced.
By the 1980s, he was exhibiting his paintings in galleries and museums internationally. The held a retrospective of his art in 1992. Basquiat's art focused on 'suggestive dichotomies', such as wealth versus poverty, integration versus segregation, and inner versus outer experience. He poetry, drawing, and painting, and married text and image,,, and historical information mixed with contemporary critique.
Basquiat used in his paintings as a 'springboard to deeper truths about the individual', as well as attacks on and systems of racism, while his poetics were acutely and direct in their criticism of and support for. He died of a at his art studio. On May 18, 2017, at a Sotheby's auction, Basquiat's 1982 painting, also Untitled, created with oil stick and spray paint and depicting a skull, set a new record high for any U.S. Artist at auction, selling for $110,500,000.