Jean-Michel Basquiat was a Brooklyn born self taught artist. His first attention attracted his graffiti in the city of New York. Basquiat’s artistic talents and inspiration came from his cultural heritage as his mother being Puerto Rican and father a Haitian American. After quitting high school a year before his graduation and years of struggling his work finally got him fame. Receiving fame for his words, stick figures, and animals, the public adored all of his hard work. Basquiat began street selling sweatshirts, and post cards with his art work on them. He exhibited all around the world becoming the youngest artist in Germany to ever showcase their work. His name being known everywhere Basquiat had become the popular subject around the world.
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He wrote epigrams in the cultural spot on the lower east side of Manhattan where hip hop, post-punk, and street art movements coalesced. He was known as the African American and Latino artist. Having a destruct childhood from a family of divorce and being hit by a car from playing in the street he managed to overcome. Learning to write at the age of four, undergoing surgeries at the age of eight, and parents divorcing at the age of eleven is already a lot for a child to experience. Turning thirteen years old his mother took a turn for the worse and resulted to a mental hospital leaving Basquiat with father. At fifteen little Jean-Michel ran away and slept on benches in the park before getting arrested and returned back to his father. Dropping school and getting banded from his house hold Basquiat stayed with friends in Brooklyn supporting himself with his sweatshirts and homemade post cards. The struggle was real for Basquiat from his childhood up until turning twenty seven years old in the city of New York year of 1988, where his life sadly ended from an over dosage of
He wrote epigrams in the cultural spot on the lower east side of Manhattan where hip hop, post-punk, and street art movements coalesced. He was known as the African American and Latino artist. Having a destruct childhood from a family of divorce and being hit by a car from playing in the street he managed to overcome. Learning to write at the age of four, undergoing surgeries at the age of eight, and parents divorcing at the age of eleven is already a lot for a child to experience. Turning thirteen years old his mother took a turn for the worse and resulted to a mental hospital leaving Basquiat with father. At fifteen little Jean-Michel ran away and slept on benches in the park before getting arrested and returned back to his father. Dropping school and getting banded from his house hold Basquiat stayed with friends in Brooklyn supporting himself with his sweatshirts and homemade post cards. The struggle was real for Basquiat from his childhood up until turning twenty seven years old in the city of New York year of 1988, where his life sadly ended from an over dosage of