Jean Michael Basquiat

Biography

Basquiat was born in Brooklyn, New York. His mother, Matilde, was Puerto Rican and his father, Gerard Basquiat origin is Haiti and the former Minister of Haiti. Because her parents nationalities, Basquiat who speak fluent French, Spanish, and English from early age. He read in this language, including the Symbolist poetry, mythology, and history. [2] At the early age, Basquiat displayed a talent for art and encouraged by his mother to draw, paint and other to participate in activities related to art. In 1977, when he was 17, Basquiat and friend Al Diaz started spray-painting graffiti on buildings in Manhattan below, add a signature that is called "only" (ie, "same old shit") see: only © Graffiti entry. The graphics are pithy messages such as "it is only safe to think .." and "only as a way out clause." In December 1978, the Village Voice published articles about his writings. [3] The project ended only with the epitaph "only IS DEAD" is written on the wall of the building SOHO. Basquiat attended Edward R. Murrow High School in New York. In 1978, Basquiat dropped out of high school and left home, one year before graduating. He moved to the city and stay with friends, living by selling T-shirts and postcards on the street, and work in the Unique Clothing Warehouse on Broadway. By 1979, however, Basquiat has obtained a certain celebrity status that developed in the midst of Manhattan's art and the East Village through regular on the Glenn O'Brien's live public access cable show, TV Party. At the end of the 1970s, Basquiat formed band called Gray (the name a reference to the book Gray's Anatomy), with Shannon Dawson, Michael Holman, Nick Taylor & Wayne Clifford. Gray played at clubs like Max's Kansas City, CBGB, Hurrahs, and the Mudd Club. Basquiat worked in the film Downtown 81 (aka New York Beat), which displays some of Gray's rare recordings on the soundtrack. [4] He also appeared in a video Blondie "rapture" as a replacement for DJ Grandmaster Flash when he does not show. Basquiat first started to get recognition as an artist in June 1980, when he participated in The Times Square Show, a multi-artist exhibition, sponsored by Collaborative Projects Incorporated (Colab) Fashion and Fashion. In 1981, poet, art critic and cultural provocateur Rene tonymx published "The Radiant Child" in Artforum magazine, [5], helping to launch Basquiat's career to the international stage. During the next few years, he Exhibiting his works in New York and internationally (with the way other artists) is now in the gallery, such as the Fun Gallery and the Gallery now, and promoted by such gallery owners and dealers as Bruno Bischofberger and Annina Nosei. He then shows in the galleries of Larry Gagosian, Mary Boone, and finally, Vrej Baghoomian. By 1982, Basquiat was showing regularly, and in addition to Julian Schnabel, David Salle, Francesco Clemente and Cucchi enzo, be part of a so-called Neo-expressionist movement. He started dating an unknown aspiring and then-named Madonna in the fall of 1982. In the same year, Basquiat met Andy Warhol, with whom he collaborated extensively in 1984-6, forging close, if strained, friendship. He was also briefly involved with artist David Bowes. [6] [7] By 1984, many of the friends that he was concerned about Basquiat excessive drug use and increasingly erratic behavior, including signs of paranoia. Basquiat had developed a serious cocaine and heroin by this habit, which started from the beginning of the year living among the junkies and street artists in New York underground. On February 10, 1985, Basquiat appeared on the cover of The New York Times Magazine in the feature entitled "New Art, New Money: The Marketing of American Artist." [8] As Basquiat high international success, his works are shown in solo exhibitions in Europe and the United States. Andy Warhol's death in 1987 is very distressing for Basquiat, and it is speculated by Phoebe Hoban, in the 1998 biography of the artist, Warhol's death, which is the peak for Basquiat, and after that he is addicted to drugs and depression began to spiral. [6] Basquiat died accidentally mixed-drug toxicity (he has been combining cocaine and heroin, often using cocaine to stay up to painting the night and then use heroin in the morning to sleep, also known as "speedballing") at 57 Great Jones Street loft / studio in 1988, a few days earlier, what has Basquiat second trip to the Ivory Coast. [edit] Artistic activities Basquiat's paintings during the 1980s is viewed in the correct context of painterly, neo-expressionist movement popular in New York and Europe at the time. But he was working early (before he has the money to paint and canvas), he continues to use the words in the painting, and Common themes racism and identity also align him with the trends of the period. Basquiat is to always deliver the most expressive, but the quality and consistency of each painting is very varied. Before starting his career as a painter, he produced punk-inspired postcards sold on the street, and became known for the political-poetic graffiti under the name only. On one occasion Basquiat painted his girlfriend's clothes, with the words, a "Little Shit Brown". Basquiat's career as an artist known Exhibiting top three wide, though overlapping styles. At the beginning of the period, from 1980 to the end of 1982, Basquiat used painterly gestures on canvas, often depicting the framework and figures such as face masks of the obsession with death. Other frequently depicted as a picture car, building, police, children's sidewalk games, and experience comes from graffiti paintings in the streets of the city. Many critics [who?] Basquiat He made the best people to work around 1982. Untitled in the head ( "untitled (skull)," 1981) illustrated above is a typical example. A middle of the end of the period from 1982 to 1985 features multi-panel paintings and individual canvases with exposed stretcher bars, the surface dense with writing, and does not appear to collage images. This paper reveal a strong interest in Basquiat's black identity and identification with the historical and contemporary black figures and events. Some works that reach large physicality, and interest in the early Rauschenberg became more evident, "Grillo" (1984) is a good example. 1984-85 period is also the main hold up Warhol-Basquiat collaboration. Collaborative paintings that received poor critical reception but iconographically complex process of paintings together and influenced each other's working time. End of the period, from about 1986 to Basquiat's death in 1988, showing a new type of figurative illustration, often in the back of the painting. May be influenced by both Warhol and Basquiat's increasing use of drugs; "Riding with Death" (1988) is an example of this style. Some of the symbols and content from new sources apear in this period, but he also re-used many phrases and motifs from previous works, the settings in starker. A major reference source used by Basquiat throughout his career is the book Gray's Anatomy, [9] that he provided in the hospital as a child. He remains influential in the internal anatomy human depictions, and in a mixture of images and text. Other major source is Dreyfuss' Symbol Sourcebook [10], Leonardo Da Vinci's notebooks, and Brentjes African Rock Art [11]. Equally important as an input in the painting is the music of Jazz 1940s, history and travel books, and TV cartoons and other things that will happen in the television while he was painting. Discussion of some of the best sources that Richard Marshall "Repelling Ghosts" in the work of [12], and Marc Mayer "Basquiat in History" in [13] but definitive studies remain to be done. [edit] Legacy Some of the major museum retrospective exhibition of Basquiat's works have been carried out since his death, in the U.S. and internationally. The first is the "Jean-Michel Basquiat" exhibit at the Whitney Museum of American Art from October 1992 to February 1993 (and this trip to the museum in Houston, Iowa, and Alabama through the 1993 - 1994). The catalog for this exhibition [12], edited by Richard Marshall and includes essays from several different styles, is part of the groundbreaking scholarship in his work, and still the main source. Other major and influential exhibition (and catalog [13]) is the "Basquiat" exhibit at the Brooklyn Museum, March-June 2005 (which then travel to Los Angeles and Houston in 2005-2006). In 1996, seven years after his death, a film biography entitled Basquiat was released, directed by Julian Schnabel, with actor Jeffrey Wright playing Basquiat. Until 2002, the highest amount paid for an original work of Basquiat is U.S. $ 3,302,500, set at the 12 November 1998 at Christie's. On 14 May 2002, Basquiat's Profit I (large-sized pieces, 86.5 "/ 220 cm by 157.5" / 400 cm), which is owned by drummer Lars Ulrich of the heavy metal band Metallica, has been put up for auction, once again at Christie's. Sold U.S. $ 5,509,500. [14] of the auction process is documented in the film Some Kind of Rakasa. On 12 November 2008 Ulrich to sell Basquiat piece in 1982, Untitled (Boxer), to U.S. $ 13,522,500 (estimated in the region at the request of U.S. $ 12 million) to another telephone bidder at Christie's auction. [15] Previously, on 15 May 2007, an untitled Basquiat work from 1981 was sold at Sotheby's in New York of U.S. $ 14.6 million. [16]. Basquiat's lasting creative influence immediately recognized in the paper and the next generation self-taught artists such as Gordon Bennett, Mark Gonzales, Kelly D. Williams and Raymond Morris. In 2005, the poet M.K. Asante, Jr. published the poem "only", which is dedicated to Basquiat, in his book Beautiful. And Ugly Too.