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Basquiat & The Street

I completed my Masters degree south of Chicago in the age of Nirvana, Bill Clinton and the O.J Simpson trial. A full decade after Basquiat was the emerging light of the New York art scene of Warhol, Haring & Schnabel. Though I grew up pouring over the graffiti art of New York’s subway cars I somehow missed the connection of Basquiat’s work to the street writers I grew up hoping to emulate.

The raw, childlike mark-making and text heavy paintings seemed a world away from the honed lettering and flair of Brooklyn’s spray can artists. I knew little of Basquiat’s graffiti past as a collaborator with Al Diaz as “SAMO” from 1977-1980.

Their sharp and witty scrawled phrases on Manhattan’s street corners provided a commentary on the art world and society that continue to reverberate in the street art of Banksy and contemporaries today.

About The Artist

Jean-Michel Basquiat was born in Brooklyn, New York in 1960 to a Haitian father (Gérard Basquiat) and a mother (Matilde Basquiat) of Puerto Rican descent. This cross cultural upbringing led Basquiat to be fluent in French, Spanish and English and a burgeoning creativity with scant regard for borders or boundaries.

To find out more about the fascinating and complex life of the artist check out our Artist Documentaries page for more on Jean Michel Basquiat – The Radiant Child.

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