Jean Michael Basquiat.
Jean-Michel Basquiat emerged from the "Punk" scene in New York. In a few fast years, Basquiat became one of the most celebrated, and possibly most commercially exploited American "naif" painters. Basquiat's work is one of the few examples of how an early 1980s American Punk, or graffiti-based and counter-cultural practice could become a fully recognized, critically embraced and popularly celebrated artistic phenomenon, indeed not unlike the rise of American Hip Hop during the same era.
Basquiat brought together in his art different traditions, practices, and styles to create a unique kind of visual collage, one deriving, in part, from his urban origins, and in another a more distant, African-Caribbean heritage.
Basquiat's swift rise to fame and equally swift and tragic death by drug overdose personifies the overly commercial, international art scene of the mid 1980s, a cultural phenomenon that for many observers was symptomatic of the largely artificial bubble economy of the era.
HOW DOES BASQUIAT LOOK LIKE??
BASQUIAT'S ART is a combination of urban and ethnic art.
WHY???
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