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Jean-Michel Basquiat

Jean-Michel Basquiat (1960 - 1988) was active/lived in New York.  Jean Michel Basquiat is 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 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, the influence of which was to later show up in his artwork as well as the name of a band he co-fou   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 17945 characters.]  Artist bio

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.  askART lists Jean-Michel Basquiat in 3 of its research Essays. Jean-Michel Basquiat has 13 artist signature examples available in our database.

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.  There are 24 similar (related) artists for Jean-Michel Basquiat available:    Keith Haring,  Roy Lichtenstein,  Willem de Kooning,  Sam Lewis Francis,  Josef Albers,  Ed Ruscha,  Damien Hirst,  Helen Frankenthaler,  Tom Wesselmann,  Andy Warhol,  Sol LeWitt,  Frank Stella,  Jim Dine,  Richard Diebenkorn,  Robert Rauschenberg,  Donald Clarence Judd,  Alex Katz,  Alexander (Sandy) Calder,  Jeff Koons,  Francis Bacon,  Robert E Indiana,  Adolph Gottlieb,  Karel Christiaan Appel,  Joan Mitchell



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