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Birth
1960 (New York City)
Death
1988 (New York City)
Lived/Active
New York
Self portrait
© Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
Often Known For
street-graffiti, naive figure
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Black American Artists
Modernism
Artists who painted Hawaii
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Noted for his graffiti street paintings under the name pseudonym 'SAMO', Jean-Michel Basquiat was born in Brooklyn. His father was Haitian-born Gerard Basquiat. His mother, Matilde Andradas, had been born in Brooklyn of Puerto Rican parents. He had two sisters (born in 1963 and 1966) also born in Brooklyn.
When only a small boy, Basquiat began drawing, inspired by the cartoons and Hitchcock films he watched on television. He also loved to read comic books and Ma (showing 500 of 15998 characters). |
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