Jean-Michel Basquiat (1960-1988)

Aliases: Jean Michel Basquiat

Professions: Graffitikünstler; Painter

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  l - Jean-Michel Basquiat , Untitled

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  Jean-Michel Basquiat (1960-1988)

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  l - Jean-Michel Basquiat , 1960-1988 Untitled (Electric Chair) acrylic, gold spray paint and oilstick on canvas

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  JEAN-MICHEL BASQUIAT Untitled (Fallen Angel), 1981

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Jean-Michel Basquiat Biography

(b New York, 22 Dec 1960; d 12 Aug 1988). American painter, sculptor and draughtsman. He showed an early interest in drawing, and he was encouraged by his mother’s interest in fashion design and sketching and by his father’s gifts of paper brought home from his office. From as early as 1965 Basquiat’s mother took him to the Brooklyn Museum, the Metropolitan Museum of Art and MOMA, and from 1966 he was a Junior Member of the Brooklyn Museum. Early influences on Basquiat’s art include his avid reading of French, Spanish and English texts, his interest in cartoon drawings, Alfred Hitchcock films, cars and comic books, such as MAD magazine and its main character, created by Alfred E. Neuman. While attending the City-as-School (1976–8), an alternative high school, he encountered the Upper West Side Drama Group and the Family Life Theatre and invented ‘Samo’ (Same Old Shit), a fictional character who earns a living selling ‘fake’ religion. He also met, collaborated with and became a close friend of Al Diaz, a graffiti artist from the Jacob Riis Projects on the Lower East Side. Basquiat and Diaz generated much interest in their GRAFFITI ART, which took the form of spray-painted aphorisms that were targeted at the ‘D’ train of the ‘IND’ line and around Lower Manhattan. Samo appeared in these graffiti: in 1978 a favourable article about Samo was printed in the Village Voice , and when the collaboration ended in 1979, ‘Samo is dead’ could be read on walls in SoHo.

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