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Jean-Michel Basquiat did not attend formal art school. He learned at City as School in Brooklyn, NY where he met his friend (and classmate) Al Diaz. The two young men took up graffiti art around the streets of New York. He lived a difficult and lonely life, got his start with graffiti and selling postcards until he was discovered in the early 1980s.
Unfortunately, Basquiat did not live to see his full potential blossom. He died of a drug overdose in 1988.
There's a great movie based on his life. It's called "Basquiat" and it was directed by Julian Schnabel. It was released in 1996.
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Jean-Michel Basquiat's dad is named Gérard Basquiat. (The second e in his first name should have an accent, but it is not always used in this country). Gerard, now retired, was an accountant born in Port-au-Prince, Haiti who moved to Brooklyn in 1955. Jean-Michel, born 1960, was his first child.More about Jean-Michel's relationship with his Gérard in Jean-Michel Basquiat: A Biography, by Eric Fretz, Greenwood Press, 2010.Gérard was also interviewed about his son's work in the book Jean-Michel Basquiat 1981: The Studio of the Street (New York: Deitch Projects; Milan: Charta, 2007), p. 90.
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Jean-Michel Basquiat was an artist.Personal InformationBorn December 22, 1960, in Brooklyn, NY; died of a cocaine-heroin overdose August 12, 1988, in New York City; son of Gerard (an accountant) and Matilde Basquiat.Education: Attended City as School, Brooklyn, NY.CareerBegan painting SAMO graffiti messages on walls around SoHo, 1977; sold painted sweatshirts and postcards and performed in the experimental band Gray, New York, 1977-80; paintings exhibited in first group show, "New York/New Wave," New York, 1981; first one-man show, Modena, Italy, 1981; first one-man show in the U.S., Annina Nosei Gallery, New York, 1982; became youngest artist ever included in prestigious international survey of contemporary art, "Documenta," Kassel, Germany, 1982; paintings included in Museum of Modern Art's re-opening exhibition, "International Survey of Painting and Sculpture," New York, 1984; Basquiat-Warhol collaborative show, Tony Shafrazi Gallery, New York, 1985; first museum retrospective, Whitney Museum of American Art, 1992. Paintings and drawings exhibited in 37 galleries (group and one-man shows) throughout the U.S. (including New York, Los Angeles, Dallas, Atlanta, St. Louis, Norfolk, and Boca Raton) and worldwide (including Paris, Tokyo, Amsterdam, Berlin, Zurich, Bologna, Montreal, and Seoul), 1981-88.For the source and more detailed information concerning this subject, click on the related links section indicated below.
