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Jean-Michel Basquiat, From Street Artist to Star of the Art Scene
An emblematic figure of contemporary art and a pioneer of Street Art as we know it today, Jean-Michel Basquiat was an ambitious young artist with a desperate need to create, who would never compromise himself to fit into the art world elite.
Jean-Michel Basquiat’s visual language and raw, brutal works draw on the tensions and contradictions of society, many of which still persist today. In the early 1980s, he was an important figure in the New York art scene and enjoyed his rapidly growing international fame, symbolizing the art world’s recognition of graffiti, and the counter-cultural scene.
His meteoric rise as a successful artist lasted for only seven years, and today Basquiat’s legacy is celebrated on multiple fronts.
Biography of Jean-Michel Basquiat
Jean-Michel Basquiat was born in 1960 in Brooklyn, New York, as the first child of Haitian and Puerto Rican parents.
He grew up in Park Slope,