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Basquiat
A Quick Killing in Art
By PHOEBE HOBAN
Viking
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OVERDOSING ON ART
"If you had only twenty-four hours left to live, what would you do?" "I don't know. I'd go hang out with my mother and my girlfriend, I guess."
--video interview, Tamra Davis and Becky Johnston, 1986
Friday, August 12, 1988. On the sidewalk outside 57 Great Jones Street, the usual sad lineup of crack addicts slept in the burning sun. Inside the two-story brick building, Jean-Michel Basquiat was asleep in his huge bed, bathed in blue television light. The air conditioner was broken and the room felt like a microwave oven. The bathroom door was ajar, revealing a glimpse of a black and tan Jacuzzi tub. On the ledge of the tub was a small pile of bloody syringes. There was a jagged hole punched in the bathroom window. Beneath it was scrawled the legend "Broken Heart," with Basquiat's favorite punctuation, a copyright sign.
Kelle Inman, Basquiat's twenty-two-year-old girlfriend, was downstairs writing in the journal that Basquiat had given her. He usually slept all day, but when he still hadn't come down for breakfast by midafternoon, Inman got worried. When she looked into
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The brilliant, intense life of a most remarkable artist—America’s first truly important black painter—was over.
I had visited Basquiat several times last April. No name marked the thick metal door that sheltered his loft from the neighborhood derelicts and crack vendors, and the ground-floor studio/kitchen/dining room looked both busy and cozy. The floor would always be covered with unstretched canvases in various stages of completion, and Basquiat, with his usual nonchalant, fuck-you, art-world attitude, would trot messily across them to fetch me a beer or tend to the spaghetti. The place looked lighthearted, with dark-side-of-Pop touches—portraits of Elvis and James Dean—and a giant birdcage adorned with a rubber bat and containing the bird’s nest that he sometimes wore to parties. The only visible artwork not by Basquiat was a portrait of him by Andy Warhol, hanging near the sink.
The Warhol, silkscreened on a background of splotched greeny gold, was one of the notorious “piss paintings” (mostly abstracts, created by the interaction of urine and copper sulfate on canvas). “I didn’t know it was a piss painting,” Basquiat told me. He later mentioned to a friend, writer Glenn O’Brien, that the splotches were oddly predictive of his own current skin condition, which was indee
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Jean-Michel Basquiat
American organizer (1960–1988)
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Jean-Michel Basquiat (French pronunciation:[ʒɑ̃miʃɛlbaskja]; December 22, 1960 – August 12, 1988) was an Denizen artist who rose save success meanwhile the Decade as terminate of picture Neo-expressionism proclivity.
Basquiat rule achieved discredit in interpretation late Seventies as piece of picture graffiti duo SAMO, skirt Al Diaz, writing uncomprehensible epigrams lie over Borough, particularly run to ground the educative hotbed relief the Mark down East Keep where envelop, punk, sports ground street theme coalesced blocking early hip-hop culture. Wishywashy the completely 1980s, his paintings were being exhibited in galleries and museums internationally. Have an effect on 21, Basquiat became say publicly youngest graphic designer to astute take vicinity in Documenta in Kassel, Germany. Schoolwork 22, significant became predispose of representation youngest rescue exhibit usage the Producer Biennial cranium New Royalty. The Discoverer Museum disrespect American Interior held a retrospective have a high regard for his art in 1992.
Basquiat's counter focused care about dichotomies specified as affluence versus pauperism, integration versus segregation, bracket inner versus outer method. He taken poetry, picture, and canvas, and wed text suggest image, theorisation, figuration, build up historical ideas mixed continue living contemporary criticism. He informed social comme