Jean-Michel Basquiat

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=endscreen&v=oDDNoPoy0jo&NR=1

Jean-Michel Basquiat was born on December 22, 1960 in Brooklyn New York there he started as a graffiti artist in the late 1970s. In the 80's he would later experiment with Neo-expressionism and Primitivism, he was great at both forms of art. Throughout his career as an artist Basquiat topics in art were that of wealth versus poverty, integration versus segregation, he was even at war with himself and this could be found in his art as well. In many interviews I found about Basquiat he always mention " The Truth" What is the truth? He was always in search of the truth. Like many of his friends, Basquiat began spray-painting graffiti on buildings Manhattan. As I conduct my research I discovered that in 1983, Basquiat produced a 12" rap single featuring hip-hop artists, Rammellzee and K-Rob. This was new to me, I did not know he was a music producer. Basquiat was later discovered by the legendary artist Andy Warhol. The two artist became very close. Later, Basquiat career would pass that of Warhol. Warhol and Basquiat worked on a series of collaborative paintings between 1983 and 1985. After Warhol’s death, a year later Basquiat died of a drug overdose.