Jean-Michel Basquiat was an American painter known for his raw gestural style of painting with graffiti-like images and scrawled text. Basquiat was raised in a middle-class home in Brooklyn.
Jean-Michel Basquiat (22. prosince 1960 New York – 12. srpna 1988) byl americký malíř s haitskými kořeny. Proslavil se nejdříve v New Yorku jako autor graffiti a později, v 80. letech, také jako neo-expresionista.
Jean-Michel Basquiat ( French pronunciation: [ʒɑ̃ miʃɛl baskja]; December 22, 1960 – August 12, 1988) was an American artist who rose to success during the 1980s as part of the neo-expressionism movement.
Synthetic polymer on canvas, 74 3/4 × 96 1/2″ (189.9 × 245.1 cm). The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Gift of Agnes Gund and Nina and Gordon Bunshaft Bequest Fund. 2003 Beatriz Milhazes
Jean-Michel Basquiat—artist and art world provocateur—took New York City by storm with his powerful and complex works that relentlessly engaged with charged sociopolitical issues, including race, police brutality, and structural inequity.