Research Paper BASQUIAT Fame and recognition are hard to catch. It takes sometimes a lifetime. The audience and the world of art are really hard to convince. Some artists did not even succeed to be recognized during their life‚ success happened when they died. But it was not the case of Jean Michel Basquiat who was born in 1960 of Haitian and Puerto Rican origin. He started to be interested by art in his early age because her mother brought him to the museum of New York. He encountered success
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Jean-Michel Basquiat Jean-Michel Basquiat was a painter and a graffiti artist. His work is mostly composed of graffiti‚ paintings on canvas and other mixed media compositions. Basquiat seemed interesting because‚ even though he did not live a long time‚ his life seemed to be filled with drama. His works seem interesting because they have a story behind them and they are supposed to be very political. Jean-Michel Basquiat was born on December 22‚ 1960‚ in Brooklyn‚ NY. Basquiat ’s mother‚ Matilde
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You may already heard about SAMO‚ see those kinds of painting or even heard the name Jean-Michel Basquiat. Today we decide to bring the light on this famous artist ; how did he starts ? How close was he from the famouse Andy Warhol ? And obviously what’s his artistic style ? He was born in Brooklyn and was a kind of precocious child‚ indeed he learned how to read and write by age four and was a gifted artist. His father banished him from the household after that he had been arrested by the
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LIFE AND TIMES OF ARTIST Jean Michel Basquiat was born on December 22‚ 1960 in Brooklyn‚ New York. His father‚ Gerard Basquiat was born in Port-au-Prince‚ Haiti and his mother‚ Matilde Andradas was born in Brooklyn of Puerto Rican parents. At an early age‚ Basquiat displayed an aptitude for art and was encouraged by his mother to draw‚ paint‚ and to participate in other art-related activities. In 1977‚ when he was 17‚ Basquiat and his friend Al Diaz started spray-painting graffiti art on slum
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In his essay‚ Royalty‚ Heroism‚ and the Streets: The Art of Jean-Michel Basquiat‚ Robert Farris Thompson recounts the story of the first time he was able to watch Basquiat at work. It was in February 1985. Just before Basquiat began painting‚ he did something rather interesting‚ as Farris Thompson notes "Basquiat activated an LP of free‚ Afro-Cuban‚ and other kinds of jazz. Then he resumed work on an unfinished collage. Hard bop sounded. Jean-Michel pasted on letters and crocodiles. He did this
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Jean-Michel Basquiat An inspiration for all generations. He has been called the Jimi Hendrix of the art world. And just like the great Jimi Hendrix he too left us when he was 27. He was and always will be an anomaly. Jean-Michel Basquiat was born at Brooklyn Hospital December 22 1960. Born to a Puerto Rican mother and a Haitian father he had the influence of two very colorful cultures. Jean-Michel was a gifted child‚ always extremely advanced for his age. Learning to read at the age of four
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Toronto Star [Toronto‚ Ont] 03 Oct 2010: E.7. ProQuest document link Abstract (Abstract): First there ’s music. [Tamra Davis] ’s [Jean-Michel Basquiat] is at its best as it reflects the artist ’s own instinctive response to the very best of musicians from Charlie Parker to Jimi Hendrix and in the way he transposed their intelligent funk to his canvases. Michel Basquiat - hardly innovative but well made - can brag of having the soundtrack of the year. Another [Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart] comparison is far more
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artist Jean-Michel Basquiat. Basquiat was born December 22‚ 1960‚ in Brooklyn‚ New York. He was well known as a graffiti artist as “SAMO” out on the streets selling various items such as postcards and sweatshirts that would display his artwork on them before his painting career would soon take off. During Basquiat early years growing up with his Haitian-American father and a Puerto Rican mother‚ his diverse culture heritage is what brought him so much inspiration. Growing up Basquiat was very much a
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Jean –Michel Basquiat was like a solar eclipse in the art world‚ something you rarely see and briefly exist. While Basquiat had a brief existence in the mainstream art world‚ he changed the art world forever. For the few people that were lucky enough to witness this event known by many names such as SAMO‚ Innovator‚ The First‚ Phenomenon and simply Basquiat‚ his impact is everlasting. However‚ unlike a solar eclipse Basquiat left behind stories that are in many different media‚ now these stories
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Jean-Michel Basquiat was a young‚ yet talented artist of the 1980’s. His works were paintings that were considered to be unique in comparison to others. He took art to a whole other level and made people really think about what they were looking at when they saw his work. Basquiat struggled with many things during his life because he was raised without his parents. Although he was on the street most of the time‚ he was still one of the most successful painters of his time. Unfortunately‚ Basquiat’s
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