Jean-michel basquiat net worth
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Eye Candy: "Jean-Michel Basquiat: The Radiant Child"
Opening to snippets of Jean-Michel Basquiat’s artwork and music, “Jean-Michel Basquiat: The Radiant Child” begins with Langston Hughes’ poem, “Genius Child.” Focusing on the misery and social seclusion faced by intellectual youth, the poem states that killing the individual, in order to free his potential, is the best option. While a somewhat disturbing way to begin the documentary, the poem eerily encapsulates Basquiat’s life.
With interviews from friends, critics and former lovers, director Tamra Davis focuses the film on the intimate interview she had with her then friend Basquiat, two years before he passed away. Even if this potential bias affected the film, the final work paints Basquiat as the tragic hero, which most postmortem biographies do. Plus, this familiarity allowed Davis to extract powerful and moving quotes from her interviewees, helping the audience visualize certain moments in Basquiat’s life with a clarity most biographical documentaries lack.
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Jean-Michel Basquiat
American artist (1960–1988)
"Basquiat" redirects here. For other uses, see Basquiat (disambiguation).
Jean-Michel Basquiat (French pronunciation:[ʒɑ̃miʃɛlbaskja]; December 22, 1960 – August 12, 1988) was an American artist who rose to success during the 1980s as part of the Neo-expressionism movement.
Basquiat first achieved notoriety in the late 1970s as part of the graffiti duo SAMO, alongside Al Diaz, writing enigmatic epigrams all over Manhattan, particularly in the cultural hotbed of the Lower East Side where rap, punk, and street art coalesced into early hip-hop culture. By the early 1980s, his paintings were being exhibited in galleries and museums internationally. At 21, Basquiat became the youngest artist to ever take part in Documenta in Kassel, Germany. At 22, he became one of the youngest to exhibit at the Whitney Biennial in New York. The Whitney Museum of American Art held a retrospective of his artwork in 1992.
Basquiat's art focused on dichotomies such as wealth versus poverty, integration versus segregation, and inner versus
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Jean-Michel Basquiat (1960-1988)
Jean-Michel Basquiat (1960-1988) – photographed by Allen Ginsberg, December 20, 1987 – c. The Estate of Allen Ginsberg
Jean-Michel Basquait died on this day, twenty-seven years ago today [this was 2015 – sic] (has it really been that long?)
Recently up (2015) at Brooklyn Museum a selection from Basquiat’s Notebooks
Don’t miss on Hyperallergic– Megan Liberty – “An Intimate Reading of Jean-Michel Basquiat’s poetry“.
Here‘s the ever-perceptive Luc Sante on Basquiat’s Notebooks in the New York Times
Rene Ricard‘s groundbreaking December 1981 article (on Basquait and Keith Haring) in Artforum – “The Radiant Child“ can be foundhere<
“Five Fish Species”, Basquait’s hommage to his hero, William S Burroughs came up for auction at Sotherby’s a couple of years ago, and can be seen in reproduction here:
Jean-Michel Basquiat, Willam Burroughs and Allen Ginsberg – Photos by Victor Bock
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