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Jean-Michel Basquiat

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, was Puerto Rican and his father, Gerard Jean-Baptiste, was Haitian. When he was young, Basquiat was encouraged by his mom to expresses himself with his artwork. In 1977, when he was 17, Basquiat and his friend Al Diaz started spray-painting graffiti buildings in lower Manhattan with the signature of "SAMO" or "SAMO shit" which meant "same ol' shit". In 1978, in his junior year, Basquiat dropped out of Edward R. Murrow High School and left home. He moved into the city and survived by......


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