Painting, Acrylic, Mixed support, 60 x 150 x 60 cm, 2011
JEAN-MICHEL BASQUIAT
(Brooklyn, December 22, 1960 – New York August 12, 1988)
He was one of the most important exponents of American graffiti, a street artist, a poet of images in the wild, a diverse painter, a night owl and a sleepwalker
1980s produced Neo-expressionist painting. Basquiat died of a heroin overdose
"I do not think art when I work. I try to think life"
"do not listen to what the art critics say. do not know anyone that needs a critic to understand what is art "
He loved music and Armani’s fashion, women, and Charlie Parker.
He loved Jimi Hendrix, Alfred Hitchcock, Keith Haring and Andy Warhol.
He loved New York and Haiti,
heroin and painting
