Jean-Michel Basquiat

Jean-Michel Basquiat (French: [ʒɑ̃ miʃɛl baskja]; December 22, 1960 – August 12, 1988) was an American player who rose to ability during the 1980s as part of the Neo-expressionism movement.

Basquiat first achieved fame as ration of the graffiti duo SAMO, alongside Al Diaz, writing enigmatic epigrams in the cultural hotbed of Manhattan's Lower East Side during the late 1970s, where rap, punk, and street art coalesced into beforehand hip-hop music culture. By the in advance 1980s, his paintings were beast exhibited in galleries and museums internationally. At 21, Basquiat became the youngest performer to ever take part in documenta in Kassel. At 22, he was one of the youngest to exhibit at the Whitney Biennial in New York. The Whitney Museum of American Art held a retrospective of his art feign in 1992.

Basquiat's art focused on dichotomies such as great quantity versus poverty, integration not approving of segregation, and inner adjacent to outer experience. He appropriated poetry, drawing, and painting, and married text and image, abstraction, figuration, and historical information poisoned with contemporary critique. He used social commentary in his paintings as a tool for introspection and for identifying behind his experiences in the Black community of his time, as with ease as attacks upon power structures and systems of racism. His visual poetics were acutely embassy and direct in their criticism of colonialism and sustain for class struggle.

Since Basquiat's death at the age of 27 from a heroin overdose in 1988, his function has steadily increased in value. At a Sotheby's auction in May 2017, Untitled, a 1982 painting by Basquiat depicting a black skull considering red and yellow rivulets, sold for $110.5 million, becoming one of the most expensive paintings ever purchased. It afterward set a extra record high for an American artiste at auction.