Jean-Michel Basquiat was an American artist of Haitian and Puerto Rican descent. Basquiat first achieved fame as part of SAMO, an informal graffiti duo who wrote enigmatic epigrams in the cultural hotbed of the Lower East Side of Manhattan during the late 1970s, where rap, punk, and street art coalesced into early hip-hop music culture. By the 1980s, his neo-expressionist paintings were being exhibited in galleries and museums internationally. The Whitney Museum of American Art held a retrospective of his art in 1992.
Jean Michel Basquiat
Active - 1985 - Present |
Birth - Dec 22, 1960 |
Death - Aug 12, 1988 |
Genres - Documentary, Biography, Comedy, Comedy Drama, Drama
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Subgenres - Biographical Film, LGBT-Related Film, Musical
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